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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Hennerich, Michael" <Michael.Hennerich@analog.com>,
	"linux-iio@vger.kernel.org" <linux-iio@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Blockers on IIO usage of regmap.
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 10:57:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110907175756.GH2906@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E679770.4090008@cam.ac.uk>

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 05:10:24PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:

Please fix your mailer to word wrap at less than 80 colums, they're
really quite hard to read as a result of this.

> CS -_______________________-
> TX  Ada0...Ada7  Da0....Da7
> RX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
> 
> Reads are 16 bit with either of the two 8 bit register addresses given the same value
> 
> CS -______________________-_____________________-
> TX  Ada0....Ada7 XXXXXXXX
> RX  XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX  Da0...Da7  Db0....Db7  

> Can interpret Da0...Da7 and Db0....Db7 as single 16 bit register and consider this device
> to just have a weird write method and normal read.  Might be easier.  I'll define Ax<n> as
> 16 bit address for the burst read.

This is starting to seem pretty far off the reservation.

> Perhaps the burst mode thing is better handled by just providing a hook to allow data to be pushed
> into regmap (from 'magic' sources), but the weird write read combination looks to me like something
> that makes sense to have in regmap (be it as another bus variant).

Probably not as a bus, it sounds like a marshalling difference rather
than a bus - the buses should really only understand byte streams.  I
don't have any bright ideas on how to deal with this, it's fairly far
away from the problem space I'm worried about.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-07 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4E6600A8.4020101@cam.ac.uk>
     [not found] ` <20110906175435.GA2924@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
     [not found]   ` <Prayer.1.3.4.1109062213100.4243@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>
2011-09-07 16:10     ` Blockers on IIO usage of regmap Jonathan Cameron
2011-09-07 16:19       ` [RFC PATCH 0/6] Using regmap with ADIS devices Jonathan Cameron
2011-09-07 16:19       ` [PATCH 1/6] SPI: add ability to say we want a cs change after every transfer Jonathan Cameron
2011-09-07 17:35         ` Mark Brown
2011-09-07 18:14           ` Jonathan Cameron
2011-09-07 18:12             ` Mark Brown
2011-09-07 18:28               ` Jonathan Cameron
2011-09-07 16:19       ` [PATCH 2/6] regmap: Add a magic bus type to handle quirks of analog devices ADIS sensors Jonathan Cameron
2011-09-07 17:47         ` Mark Brown
2011-09-07 18:26           ` Jonathan Cameron
2011-09-07 18:32             ` Mark Brown
2011-09-07 18:50               ` Jonathan Cameron
2011-09-07 18:44                 ` Mark Brown
2011-09-07 19:14                   ` Jonathan Cameron
2011-09-07 16:19       ` [PATCH 3/6] staging:iio:imu: adis16400 partial conversion to regmap Jonathan Cameron
2011-09-07 16:23         ` Jonathan Cameron
2011-09-07 16:19       ` [PATCH 4/6] regmap-spi-adi + staging:iio:imu:adis16400 halve register addresses Jonathan Cameron
2011-09-07 16:19       ` [PATCH 5/6] regmap-spi-adi generalize regmap_spi_read Jonathan Cameron
2011-09-07 16:19       ` [PATCH 6/6] staging:iio:imu:adis16400 make use of regmap bulk read capabilities Jonathan Cameron
2011-09-07 17:57       ` Mark Brown [this message]
2011-09-07 18:12         ` Blockers on IIO usage of regmap Jonathan Cameron

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