Hi Jean,

On Tuesday 26 June 2012 18:56:16 Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:20:33 +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > It might be a good idea to implement i2c_smbus_*-like functions for 16-bit
> > register addresses in the I2C core, they could be reused across drivers.
> 
> Except that they would preferably not be called i2c_smbus_*, not being
> part of the SMBus subset nor being commonly implemented by SMBus-only
> controllers.

Sure. We need another name.

> Finding a proper name for these helpers function might be tough, as may be
> figuring out which ones you really want to implement and which ones aren't
> worth it.
> 
> Also note that this is more or less what regmap is trying to do, so you
> may want to check in that direction (see drivers/base/regmap) first.

Thanks, I didn't know about that.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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