From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] MFD: twl6040: Cache the vibra control registers Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:01:42 -0700 Message-ID: <20111011160142.GB10286@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: <1316760584-27426-1-git-send-email-peter.ujfalusi@ti.com> <1316760584-27426-3-git-send-email-peter.ujfalusi@ti.com> <20111011144824.GE1098@sirena.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-vx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.220.174]:53674 "EHLO mail-vx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754859Ab1JKQBt (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:01:49 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111011144824.GE1098@sirena.org.uk> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Brown Cc: Peter Ujfalusi , Samuel Ortiz , Liam Girdwood , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Misael Lopez Cruz , linux-input@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 03:48:24PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 09:49:40AM +0300, Peter Ujfalusi wrote: > > The vibra control register will be used from the ASoC codec driver as well. > > In order to avoid latency issues caused by I2C read access, cache the two > > control register within the core driver, so we do not need to reach out > > to the chip to read it back. > > > > Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi > > It strikes me that it might be useful to just convert the driver to > regmap and get cache for everything... > > Anyway, could you please restructure this series to minimize the > dependency on the input subsystem? Then we can get the rest of it > applied. > I'm OK with all patches going through MFD - I do not believe it will cause any merge issues. For the record I still do not like returning EBUSY when device is not available - I think if device can't serve any requests it should not exists at all. -- Dmitry