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From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
To: Raveendra Padasalagi <raveendra.padasalagi@broadcom.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>,
	Jonathan Richardson <jonathar@broadcom.com>,
	Jon Mason <jonmason@broadcom.com>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com>,
	Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] input: cygnus-update touchscreen dt node document
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 09:04:30 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160212150430.GA15049@rob-hp-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <979fb4dc5fba643a6780759d2a13530a@mail.gmail.com>

Your mailer is not handling wrapping correctly. Generally, Outlook does 
not work for maillists.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 10:24:43AM +0530, Raveendra Padasalagi wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dmitry Torokhov [mailto:dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com]
> > Sent: 09 February 2016 23:14
> > To: Raveendra Padasalagi
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann; Russell King; devicetree@vger.kernel.org; linux-arm-
> > kernel@lists.infradead.org; linux-input@vger.kernel.org; Rob Herring;
> Pawel
> > Moll; Mark Rutland; Ian Campbell; Kumar Gala; Jonathan Richardson; Jon
> > Mason; Florian Fainelli; Ray Jui; Scott Branden;
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> > bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] input: cygnus-update touchscreen dt node
> document

And Outlook's reply header is non-standard.

[...]

> > > In Cygnus SOC, Touch screen controller registers are shared with ADC
> > > and flex timer IP's.
> > > Using readl/writel could lead to race condition. So this patch is
> > > introduced to take care mutually exclusive access of register's in
> > > such a case.
> > >
> > > In the platform's where touchscreen register's are not shared normal
> > > readl/writel could be used.
> >
> > Are there currently platforms where the registers are not shared? If we
> have to
> > use regmap to correctly update registers (and thus we need
> > syscon) then I wonder if we should even attempt to support direct
> register
> > access by the driver.
> 
> Currently there are no platforms without register sharing, but we would
> like to keep
> the driver generic enough to take care of future SOC's if comes with
> dedicated registers
> and same touchscreen IP being re-used.

These future SoCs will have a different compatible string and you should 
use that to determine whether reg or syscon is used.

Rob

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-12 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-09  8:57 [PATCH 0/3] Syscon support for iProc touchscreen driver Raveendra Padasalagi
2016-02-09  8:57 ` [PATCH 1/3] input: cygnus-update touchscreen dt node document Raveendra Padasalagi
2016-02-09 11:04   ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-09 16:55     ` Raveendra Padasalagi
     [not found]       ` <3b53af6b6c6735d10cb88518c8b8a0ae-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-09 17:43         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-02-10  4:54           ` Raveendra Padasalagi
2016-02-12 15:04             ` Rob Herring [this message]
2016-02-16  4:24               ` Raveendra Padasalagi
2016-02-09  8:57 ` [PATCH 2/3] input: syscon support in bcm_iproc_tsc driver Raveendra Padasalagi
2016-02-09  8:57 ` [PATCH 3/3] ARM: dts: use syscon in cygnus touchscreen dt node Raveendra Padasalagi

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