Re: Adding SMBus block transfers to iic(4)

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

Good point.

On Sun, 11 Mar 2012, Mouse wrote:

> > [...] i2c block-mode transfers [...]
>
> >         #define I2C_F_BLOCK     0x20
>
> > Comments?  Suggestions?  Alternatives?
>
> "BLOCK" has a second, quite different, meaning (as in, "blocking I/O").
> It may not apply here, but defining a bit in the interface that can be
> misunderstood as indicating it does could, at the very least, be
> confusing.
>
> Might I suggest BLKMODE instead of BLOCK?  At least to my eye, that's a
> lot less ambiguous.
>
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