Sorry, haven't had the chance yet. I'll try to do this and hopefully
send v3 of the patch by the end of this week

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:14 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torok...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 09:41:33PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 09:03:11PM -0800, Andrey Smirnov wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
>> > <dmitry.torok...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 08:24:17PM -0800, Andrey Smirnov wrote:
>> > >> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
>> > >> <dmitry.torok...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >> > Hi Andrey,
>> > >> >
>> > >> > On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 04:47:01PM -0800, Andrey Smirnov wrote:
>> > >> >> New version of the PCU firmware supports two new commands:
>> > >> >>   - IMS_PCU_CMD_OFN_SET_CONFIG which allows to write data to the
>> > >> >>   registers of one finger navigation(OFN) chip present on the device
>> > >> >>   - IMS_PCU_CMD_OFN_GET_CONFIG which allows to read data form the
>> > >> >>   registers of said chip.
>> > >> >>
>> > >> >> This commit adds two helper functions to use those commands and sysfs
>> > >> >> attributes to use them. It also exposes some OFN configuration
>> > >> >> parameters via sysfs.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Thank you for making the changes. I do not still quite like the games 
>> > >> > we
>> > >> > play with the OFN attributes, how about the patch below (on top of
>> > >> > yours)?
>> > >> >
>> > >>
>> > >> Yeah, I agree I like it the "two separate sysfs groups" group approach
>> > >> better. The only small nitpick about your patch is that I think we
>> > >> should use "get_unaligned_le16" instead of "le16_to_cpup"(In case
>> > >> anyone decides to run the driver on SuperH or C6x DSPs from TI :-)).
>> > >> Let me test it and if everything works as expected I'll apply you
>> > >> patch, convert it to "get_unaligned_le16", squash and send v3 of the
>> > >> patch.
>> > >
>> > > Why do we need get_unaligned_le16()? As far as I can see pcu->cmd_buf is
>> > > aligned and therefore pcu->cmd_buf[2] is also aligned on word boundary.
>> >
>> > * The "pcu" structure is allocated with kmalloc which doesn't give any
>> > guarantees about address alignment.
>> > * I am not sure if the cmd_buf field in that structure is aligned, and
>> > even if it is, any future changes to that structure may shift its
>> > offset.
>> > * Also even if the data we are interested in is aligned on 2-byte
>> > border, I think all those architectures require 4-byte border
>> > alignment.
>>
>> As far as I know word access only requires word alignment. Please see
>> the other patch I just posted that adds alignment check in balcklight
>> handling code.
>
> Andrey, were you able to test the patch?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Dmitry
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