Re: [PATCH] mfd: arizona: Don't use regmap_read_poll_timeout

From: Charles Keepax
Date: Mon Jun 04 2018 - 06:27:30 EST


On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 12:40:37PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 8:44 AM, Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 May 2018, Charles Keepax wrote:
>
> >> + while (true) {
> >> + ret = regmap_read(arizona->regmap, reg, &val);
> >>
> >> + if ((val & mask) == target)
> >> + return 0;
> >> +
> >> + if (ktime_compare(ktime_get(), timeout) > 0)
> >> + break;
> >> +
> >> + usleep_range(ARIZONA_REG_POLL_DELAY_US / 2,
> >> + ARIZONA_REG_POLL_DELAY_US);
> >> + }
>
> >From my point of view infinite loops not good for readability and maintenance.
> Perhaps
>
> do {
> ...
> } while (ktime_compare(...));
>
> ?

I would rather not do it that way since then it becomes
impossible to have a single poll with no delays happening. I can
refactor to remove the while(true) but it will make the code a
bit bigger, as I will probably need to duplicate some code
outside the loop.

Thanks,
Charles