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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 23:16:13 +0100
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On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 01:54:43PM -0800, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
> regmap_update_bits(), which is referenced for 346 times.

I'm at a loss as to why people keep talking about regmap.

$ git grep regmap_update_bits arch/x86/
$

> Are you saying that any such calls are not useful?

It seems I have to repeat myself ad absurdum so let me summarize: I
don't have anything against useful APIs. Those are not.

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