[PATCH 07/11] pinctrl: single: use function pointer for register access

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sun Jan 24 19:00:45 CET 2021


Hi Dario,

On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 at 09:50, Dario Binacchi <dariobin at libero.it> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> > Il 24/01/2021 03:03 Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> ha scritto:
> >
> >
> > Hi Dario,
> >
> > On Sat, 23 Jan 2021 at 11:27, Dario Binacchi <dariobin at libero.it> wrote:
> > >
> > > The patch allows you to call the read/write functions set during probing
> > > without having to check the type of access at runtime. It also adds
> > > functions for 8-bit registers access.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Dario Binacchi <dariobin at libero.it>
> > > ---
> > >
> > >  drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-single.c | 98 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> > >  1 file changed, 73 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> >
> > I'm not really keen on this. A switch() statement is not expensive and
> > function pointers add indirection/confusion and use more space.
>
> I think however it is better to create two static functions for reading/writing
> operations (with a switch() statement inside). So as not to replicate the code.
> Do you agree?

Yes that sounds good to me.

Regards,
Simon


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