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From: Davide Ciminaghi <ciminaghi@gnudd.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regmap: introduce tables for readable/writeable/volatile/precious checks
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:41:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121120084135.GC10665@mail.gnudd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121120060509.GB10560@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 03:05:11PM +0900, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 02:31:53PM +0100, Davide Ciminaghi wrote:
> > Many of the regmap enabled drivers implementing one or more of the
> > readable, writeable, volatile and precious methods use the same code
> > pattern:
> > 
> > 	return ((reg >= X && reg <= Y) || (reg >= W && reg <= Z) || ...)
> > 
> > Switch to a data driven approach, using tables to describe
> > readable/writeable/volatile and precious registers ranges instead.
> > The table based check can still be overridden by passing the usual function
> > pointers via struct regmap_config.
> 
> Sorry, the code looks good but I just realised we already have a feature
> called ranges - the paged window support also calls the regions it uses
> ranges.  Can I suggest access_table or similar instead?  Sorry about
> that - I should've realised.

ok no problem, I'll change the name and resend.

Thanks and regards
Davide


  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-20  8:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-19 13:31 [PATCH] regmap: introduce tables for readable/writeable/volatile/precious checks Davide Ciminaghi
2012-11-20  6:05 ` Mark Brown
2012-11-20  8:41   ` Davide Ciminaghi [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-11-20 14:20 Davide Ciminaghi
2012-11-21  2:11 ` Mark Brown
2012-10-25 12:24 ciminaghi

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