Re: [RFC PATCH] ES938 support for ES18xx driver

[Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>]

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:20:54PM +0200, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> +static int snd_es938_read_reg(struct snd_es938 *chip, u8 reg, u8 *out)
> +{
> +	u8 buf[8];
> +	int i = 0, res;
> +	u8 sysex[] = { MIDI_CMD_COMMON_SYSEX, 0x00, 0x00, ES938_ID,
> +		       ES938_CMD_REG_R, reg, MIDI_CMD_COMMON_SYSEX_END };
> +	unsigned long end_time;
> +
> +	snd_rawmidi_kernel_write(chip->rfile.output, sysex, sizeof(sysex));
> +
> +	memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf));
> +	end_time = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(100);
> +	while (i < sizeof(buf)) {
> +		res = snd_rawmidi_kernel_read(chip->rfile.input, buf + i,
> +					      sizeof(buf) - i);
> +		if (res > 0)
> +			i += res;
> +		if (time_after(jiffies, end_time))
> +			return -1;
> +	}

Forgive me, but I seem to faintly remember that it's preferred for
user code to tend towards non-jiffies-based timing (IIRC due to
NOHZ efforts etc.).
So if that actually is the case, then one might want to change it to
less jiffies-dependent handling (use non-jiffies helpers), but then how?

> +static void snd_es938_write_reg(struct snd_es938 *chip, u8 reg, u8 val)
> +{
> +	u8 sysex[] = { MIDI_CMD_COMMON_SYSEX, 0x00, 0x00, ES938_ID,
> +		       ES938_CMD_REG_W, reg, val, MIDI_CMD_COMMON_SYSEX_END };
> +
> +	snd_rawmidi_kernel_write(chip->rfile.output, sysex, sizeof(sysex));

snd_rawmidi_kernel_write() is prototyped as const unsigned char *buf,
so perhaps...
const unsigned char buf[] = ...;?
(static const probably not so useful
e.g. since static const may be rather prone to cache misses)

Though personally I do favour u8, since "char" seems so unsuitably stringy -
but the prototype currently doesn't offer it typed that way...

(Almost-)Reviewed-By: Andreas Mohr <andim2@users.sf.net>

Andreas Mohr