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

[Mark Brown <broonie-yzvPICuk2AATkU/dhu1WVueM+bqZidxxQQ4Iyu8u01E@public.gmane.org>]

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On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 07:04:14PM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 February 2012 06:37 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> >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.

>  * @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.

But that's just raw_write(), there's no benefit to the additional API
call.

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