Re: [PATCH 2/3] mfd: tps65090: Stop caching registers

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>]

> Nearly all of the registers in tps65090 combine control bits and
> status bits.  Turn off caching of registers so that we can read status
> bits reliably.
> 
> NOTE: the IRQnMASK and CG_CTRLn registers are the exception and could
> be cached.  If we find that we spend a lot of time reading those we
> can turn on cache for just those registers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
> ---
>  drivers/mfd/tps65090.c | 10 ----------
>  1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/tps65090.c b/drivers/mfd/tps65090.c
> index c3cddb4..4cfdd07 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/tps65090.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/tps65090.c
> @@ -149,21 +149,11 @@ static struct regmap_irq_chip tps65090_irq_chip = {
>  	.mask_invert = true,
>  };
>  
> -static bool is_volatile_reg(struct device *dev, unsigned int reg)
> -{
> -	if ((reg == TPS65090_INT_STS) || (reg == TPS65090_INT_STS2))
> -		return true;
> -	else
> -		return false;
> -}
> -

I don't know enough about Regmap internals to know what this actually
affects in real terms.

Mark,
  Does this change seem sane to you?

>  static const struct regmap_config tps65090_regmap_config = {
>  	.reg_bits = 8,
>  	.val_bits = 8,
>  	.max_register = TOTAL_NUM_REG,
>  	.num_reg_defaults_raw = TOTAL_NUM_REG,
> -	.cache_type = REGCACHE_RBTREE,
> -	.volatile_reg = is_volatile_reg,
>  };
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_OF

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