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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Cc: Dimitris Papastamos <dp@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Liam Girdwood <lrg@ti.com>,
	Graeme Gregory <gg@slimlogic.co.uk>,
	Samuel Oritz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6 v3] regmap: Incorporate the regcache core into regmap
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:53:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110915235324.GI3218@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E728840.407@metafoo.de>

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 01:20:32AM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:

> But for writes the error is propagated to the caller, instead of falling back
> to a hw write. There should be at least consistency between the two.

Hrm, yes we should do that (I haven't actually had time to read this
round yet).

> And I think we should document that regmap_readable and regmap_writeable don't
> prevent actuall hw access, but are merely meant as hints for stuff like caching.

Well, right now we don't enforce anything at all.  I wouldn't object to
a patch for this but once we go out of spec I think we're fine so long
as we're senseible.

      reply	other threads:[~2011-09-15 23:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-15 10:34 [PATCH 0/6 v3] Introduce caching support for regmap Dimitris Papastamos
2011-09-15 10:34 ` [PATCH 1/6 v3] regmap: Introduce caching support Dimitris Papastamos
2011-09-15 15:11   ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2011-09-15 15:32     ` Dimitris Papastamos
2011-09-15 10:34 ` [PATCH 2/6 v3] regmap: Add the indexed cache support Dimitris Papastamos
2011-09-15 10:34 ` [PATCH 3/6 v3] regmap: Add the rbtree " Dimitris Papastamos
2011-09-15 10:34 ` [PATCH 4/6 v3] regmap: Add the LZO " Dimitris Papastamos
2011-09-15 10:34 ` [PATCH 5/6 v3] regmap: Add the regcache_sync trace event Dimitris Papastamos
2011-09-15 10:34 ` [PATCH 6/6 v3] regmap: Incorporate the regcache core into regmap Dimitris Papastamos
2011-09-15 15:19   ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2011-09-15 15:37     ` Dimitris Papastamos
2011-09-15 22:57     ` Mark Brown
2011-09-15 23:20       ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2011-09-15 23:53         ` Mark Brown [this message]

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