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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] regmap: add MMIO bus support
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 09:38:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120405083805.GA3129@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F7CD61E.8000609@wwwdotorg.org>

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On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 05:15:42PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:

> I assume the solution here is to:

> * Always use __raw_readl/__raw_writel in regmap-mmio.c so that there's
> never any endianness conversion, and don't use the endianness conversion
> macros when reading/writing the work buffer.
> * Implement alternative formatters that format in LE instead of BE
> * Add a field to regmap_config indicating which endianness the data
> should be in, and use this flag to select the LE/BE formatters.

> Does that sound about right?

Sounds about right, yes - probably worth having a third option for the
formatting which does no translation for on-SoC device.

> > Given that you constrain on registration too this should be BUG_ON(),
> > we're seriously confused if we're specifying a different register size
> > here and -EIO is going to be a bit obscure.

> I wondered about that. I would have been quite happy to repost with that
> change. Do you want an incremental patch?

Yes, please.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-05  8:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-04 21:48 [PATCH 1/6] regmap: introduce fast_io busses, and use a spinlock for them Stephen Warren
2012-04-04 21:48 ` [PATCH 2/6] regmap: allow regmap instances to be named Stephen Warren
2012-04-06  3:44   ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-04-06  5:12     ` Stephen Warren
2012-04-04 21:48 ` [PATCH 3/6] regmap: introduce explicit bus_context for bus callbacks Stephen Warren
2012-04-04 21:48 ` [PATCH 4/6] regmap: add MMIO bus support Stephen Warren
2012-04-04 22:59   ` Mark Brown
2012-04-04 23:15     ` Stephen Warren
2012-04-05  8:38       ` Mark Brown [this message]
2012-04-04 21:48 ` [PATCH 5/6] regmap: add runtime PM calls to debugfs file IO Stephen Warren
2012-04-04 22:19   ` Mark Brown
2012-04-04 21:48 ` [PATCH 6/6] regmap: prevent division by zero in rbtree_show Stephen Warren
2012-04-04 22:24   ` Mark Brown

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