Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] ARM: dts: socfpga: fpga bridges bindings docs

atull
2014-10-29T14:37:31Z

On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, Steffen Trumtrar wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:16:32AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 08:57:01AM +0100, Steffen Trumtrar wrote:
> >
> > > So, that shouldn't be a problem though, as I already cooked up a driver for
> > > the L3 with all the ranges specified. The only thing I need to figure out
> > > before I will post it, is how to nicely handle the WO remap register.
> > > I think regmap might be able to handle this itself, but am not sure yet.
> >
> > It's supposed to be able to, not sure if anyone really tests that or not
> > though so it's possible bugs crept in. Most write only registers can
> > physically be read so actually come out as volatile rather than write
> > only even if functionally there is no reason to read.
>
> Ah, I think you might be actually right there. IIRC it IS possible to read
> from that register, but you only get 0s.

Yes, you can read and it will be all 0s. So read-modify-write is not
something you would want to do for instance.

Alan

> So, I shot myself in the knee with specifying that register as write-only
> in my driver.
>
> Thanks,
> Steffen
>
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