Re: [PATCH v1] asm-generic: introduce be56 unaligned accessors

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Mon, Oct 7, 2024, at 14:57, Marius.Cristea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Mon, 2024-10-07 at 14:44 +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> Most probably this request is quite specific to my driver and I'm not
> sure how often it will be used by somebody else.
>
> I'm using block read in order to get multiple registers at a time
> (around 76 bytes) and to increase the efficiency of the transfer over
> I2C. Being a block read there are different registers length involved
> from 16 up to 56 bits long and I need to unpack.

Ok, makes sense. In this case I would keep the exact implementation
you have but move it into your driver where I guess it started out.
If we ever get multiple drivers that need the same thing, we can
still consolidate the implementation.

       Arnd