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Date:   Mon, 11 Jan 2021 22:01:08 +0100
From:   Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
To:     Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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        Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
        Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Use void pointers instead of char in I2C transfer
 APIs
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 12:31:29PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> While we indeed often deal with a stream of bytes when executing a
> transfer, at the higher layers we usually work with more structured
> data, and there is not really a reason to require casts to u8 * form the
> callers. These series change I2C APIs to accept [const] void pointers,
> and also adjust SMBUS implementation to use get/put_unaligned_16() and
> memcpy() for moving data around.

I just started to work on something SMBus, so I rediscovered this series
and will comment now.


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