Re: [PATCH 4.19 106/140] iio: ad7949: kill pointless "readback"-handling code

Sasha Levin
2019-12-17T16:30:47Z

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 07:45:36PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 07:31:31PM +0100, Andrea Merello wrote:
>> Something nasty seems happening here: it looks like the commit message
>> and the actual diff have nothing to do one wrt the other; the commit
>> message is from one of my patches, the diff is against some unrelated
>> file.
>>
>> Il giorno lun 16 dic 2019 alle ore 19:05 Greg Kroah-Hartman
>> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> ha scritto:
>> >
>> > From: Meng Li <Meng.Li@windriver.com>
>> >
>> > [ Upstream commit c270bbf7bb9ddc4e2a51b3c56557c377c9ac79bc ]
>> >
>> > The device could be configured to spit out also the configuration word
>> > while reading the AD result value (in the same SPI xfer) - this is called
>> > "readback" in the device datasheet.
>> >
>> > The driver checks if readback is enabled and it eventually adjusts the SPI
>> > xfer length and it applies proper shifts to still get the data, discarding
>> > the configuration word.
>> >
>> > The readback option is actually never enabled (the driver disables it), so
>> > the said checks do not serve for any purpose.
>> >
>> > Since enabling the readback option seems not to provide any advantage (the
>> > driver entirely sets the configuration word without relying on any default
>> > value), just kill the said, unused, code.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
>> > Reviewed-by: Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@analog.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
>> > ---
>> > drivers/edac/altera_edac.c | 1 +
>> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c b/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
>> > index 56de378ad13dc..c9108906bcdc0 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
>> > @@ -600,6 +600,7 @@ static const struct regmap_config s10_sdram_regmap_cfg = {
>> > .reg_read = s10_protected_reg_read,
>> > .reg_write = s10_protected_reg_write,
>> > .use_single_rw = true,
>> > + .fast_io = true,
>> > };
>> >
>> > static int altr_s10_sdram_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> > --
>> > 2.20.1
>> >
>> >
>> >
>
>Wow, something went wrong.
>
>Sasha, can you look into this?

Yikes, sorry - this is one of the commits that needed to be manually
backported, and I must have copy pasted the wrong commit hash to use as
the commit message.

This really is 56d9e7bd3fa0 ("EDAC/altera: Use fast register IO for S10
IRQs") which needs to be in the stable tree, I'll go fix up the message.

--
Thanks,
Sasha