Re: [PATCH V1 1/2] mfd: tps65910: use regmap for device register access.

[Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On Wednesday 08 February 2012 06:37 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 05:45:43PM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
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>> I did not wanted to make the list of register in core driver. Wanted
>> to leave the decision to the sub-devices driver where they need to
>> enable cache based on their requirements.
>> Do you think that the register list (although it is used in the
>> regulator driver) should be in the core file? If this is allow then
>> I can make the static table in core driver.
> Yes, it should be in the core driver.
>
Fine, it will much simple in this case.

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>> This function added because there is no bulk_write function in core
>> driver which supports the non-volatile in the list. Even if number
>> of bytes read is 1.
>> Should we move the above logic to core driver?
> This is the core driver?  If you mean the regmap core then yes.
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Yes, change regmap core driver i.e. regmap.c
>> - If any of the register is non-volatile in bulk write then split
>> the transfer into the byte-wise/short-wise/long-wise
>> (format.val_bytes) based on register width?
>> - If all register is volatile the uses the regmap_raw_write()
>> Does it sounds reasonable? If yes then I can move this code to
>> regmap.c as regmap_bulk_write() i.e. new function.
> Yes, though bulk_write() is tricky as it's *really* unclear what it
> should take as an argument - should it be raw register size (in which
> case it's just raw_write()) or should it be ints (in which case it needs
> to repack the data too)?  I suspect ints but I'm really not convinced
> there's much use case for this.
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  * @map: Register map to write to
  * @reg: Initial register to write to
  * @val: Block of data to be written, laid out for direct transmission 
to the
  *       device
  * @@val_count: Number of registers to write
int regmap_bulk_write(struct regmap *map, unsigned int reg, void *val,
                      size_t val_count)


only support if map->format.parse_val not null like bulk_read.

It will just do the regamp_raw_write() if all regs are volatile
otherwise make the unsigned int from the val by function 
map->format.parse_val for separate write for each register.

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