Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] tty: add rpmsg driver

[Jiri Slaby]

On 26. 03. 20, 12:40, Arnaud POULIQUEN wrote:
>>>>> +	/*
>>>>> +	 * Try to send the message to remote processor, if failed return 0 as
>>>>> +	 * no data sent
>>>>> +	 */
>>>>> +	ret = rpmsg_trysendto(cport->d_ept, tmpbuf, msg_size, cport->data_dst);
>>>>
>>>> data of rpmsg_trysendto is not const. OK, you seem you need to change
>>>> that first, I see no blocker for that.
>>>
>>> I created a temporary buffer to ensure that buffer to sent does not exceed the 
>>> MTU size.
>>> But perhaps this is an useless protection as the rpmsg_tty_write_room already
>>> return the MTU value, and so the 'len' variable can not be higher that value
>>> returned by the write_room?
>>
>> You still can limit it by msg_size without cloning the buffer, right?
> you are right, but in this case i need to cast the buff to suppress compilation
> warning on const and I don't know if all compilers will accept this...
>  
> pbuf = (u8 *)buf;
> ret = rpmsg_trysendto(cport->d_ept, pbuf, msg_size, cport->data_dst);

No, don't do that. Read my first message again; in particular:

> data of rpmsg_trysendto is not const. OK, you seem you need to change
> that first, I see no blocker for that.

thanks,
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js
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