Re: [PATCH v3] regmap: debugfs: Add a registers `range' file

[Dimitris Papastamos <dp@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 11:46:55AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 12:05:39PM +0000, Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
> 
> > +struct regmap_reg_range  {
> > +	unsigned int start;
> > +	unsigned int end;
> > +	unsigned int attr;
> > +};
> 
> > +	i = start_reg;
> > +	while (i <= map->max_register) {
> > +		reg_attr = regmap_attr_bitmap(map, i);
> > +		switch (state) {
> 
> We're doing a linear scan through the entire register map here in order
> to build up a list of which registers exist, doing it every time the
> file is read.  This data structure looks *very* like the one we have for
> the reads themselves, it seems like we should be sharing the work here
> and using the same cache.

Yea that's true.  Will fix this and re-send.

Thanks,
Dimitris