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From: Dimitris Papastamos <dp@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, patches@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] regmap: Allow caches for devices with no defaults
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:50:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111010105019.GA21469@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111010092345.GA3040@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:23:46AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 09:41:26AM +0100, Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 02:44:36PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > +	} else if (map->num_reg_defaults_raw) {
> > >  		/* Some devices such as PMICs don't have cache defaults,
> > >  		 * we cope with this by reading back the HW registers and
> > >  		 * crafting the cache defaults by hand.
> 
> > We could probably then also remove the first check in
> > regcache_hw_init() I guess.
> 
> > The one:
> 
> > if (!map->num_reg_defaults_raw)
> > 	return -EINVAL;
> 
> I felt it was clearer to have the defaults init fail if it doesn't work
> so that the callers know what happened.  Otherwise the callers have to
> figure out if it succeeded because it did what it was supposed to.

Aw right yes.

Acked-by: Dimitris Papastamos <dp@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-10 10:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-09 13:44 [PATCH 1/2] regmap: Return a sensible error code if we fail to read the cache Mark Brown
2011-10-09 13:44 ` [PATCH 2/2] regmap: Allow caches for devices with no defaults Mark Brown
2011-10-09 17:43   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-10-09 19:34     ` Mark Brown
2011-10-10  8:41   ` Dimitris Papastamos
2011-10-10  9:23     ` Mark Brown
2011-10-10 10:50       ` Dimitris Papastamos [this message]
2011-10-10  9:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] regmap: Return a sensible error code if we fail to read the cache Dimitris Papastamos

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