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mfd: Avoid copying data in WM8994 I2C write

As well as providing a trivial performance optimisation this also avoids
allocating a copy of the message on the stack which is beneficial when
doing large transfers.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Mark Brown 14 years ago
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1 changed files with 13 additions and 9 deletions
  1. 13 9
      drivers/mfd/wm8994-core.c

+ 13 - 9
drivers/mfd/wm8994-core.c

@@ -580,25 +580,29 @@ static int wm8994_i2c_read_device(struct wm8994 *wm8994, unsigned short reg,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-/* Currently we allocate the write buffer on the stack; this is OK for
- * small writes - if we need to do large writes this will need to be
- * revised.
- */
 static int wm8994_i2c_write_device(struct wm8994 *wm8994, unsigned short reg,
 				   int bytes, void *src)
 {
 	struct i2c_client *i2c = wm8994->control_data;
-	unsigned char msg[bytes + 2];
+	struct i2c_msg xfer[2];
 	int ret;
 
 	reg = cpu_to_be16(reg);
-	memcpy(&msg[0], &reg, 2);
-	memcpy(&msg[2], src, bytes);
 
-	ret = i2c_master_send(i2c, msg, bytes + 2);
+	xfer[0].addr = i2c->addr;
+	xfer[0].flags = 0;
+	xfer[0].len = 2;
+	xfer[0].buf = (char *)&reg;
+
+	xfer[1].addr = i2c->addr;
+	xfer[1].flags = I2C_M_NOSTART;
+	xfer[1].len = bytes;
+	xfer[1].buf = (char *)src;
+
+	ret = i2c_transfer(i2c->adapter, xfer, 2);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		return ret;
-	if (ret < bytes + 2)
+	if (ret != 2)
 		return -EIO;
 
 	return 0;