public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org, Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
	patches@linaro.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Venu Byravarasu <vbyravarasu@nvidia.com>,
	Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>,
	"Ying-Chun Liu \(PaulLiu\)" <paul.liu@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9] mfd: Add anatop mfd driver
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:52:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201203151552.54617.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120315120948.GG3138@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>

On Thursday 15 March 2012, Mark Brown wrote:
> There were some other mutterings about using regmap for memory mapped
> devices, mostly from the point of view of building framework features
> like this on top of it.  regmap currently makes some assumptions that
> the I/O is going to be slow so approximately any amount of CPU time can
> usefully be spent on avoiding I/O but we can probably do something about
> that.  It also uses mutexes to lock I/O which might not be the most
> sensible thing for memory mapped devices, but again that's solveable.
> Right now there's no memory mapping support but there's no reason that
> can't be added.
> 
> In short, it does seem sensible to want to have some support for this
> for devices that use appropriate idioms.

Ok, I see. 

I guess there is no reason to change anything in Paul's patch now, but
we can keep this in mind if we see a lot of similar drivers in the future.

Thanks,

	Arnd

      reply	other threads:[~2012-03-15 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-15  7:43 [PATCH v9] mfd: Add anatop mfd driver Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu)
2012-03-15  9:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-15 12:09   ` Mark Brown
2012-03-15 15:52     ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=201203151552.54617.arnd@arndb.de \
    --to=arnd@arndb.de \
    --cc=broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com \
    --cc=jacmet@sunsite.dk \
    --cc=linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org \
    --cc=linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=patches@linaro.org \
    --cc=paul.liu@linaro.org \
    --cc=sameo@linux.intel.com \
    --cc=vbyravarasu@nvidia.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox