Re: [BUG ?] regmap: debugfs: WARN_ON at regmap-debugfs.c:151

[Sergej Sawazki <ce3a@gmx.de>]

On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 15:49:33 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 02:42:30PM +0200, Sergej Sawazki wrote:
>> Am 15. Juni 2015 11:49:22 MESZ, schrieb Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>:
>
>>> We need to change that code to special case write only register maps
>>> like this and just skip having a cache for those devices.  They
>>> normally
>>> have very small register maps anyway so it shouldn't have too big an
>>> impact on performance.
>
>> I'm having this issue with a wm8741 DAC, its register map is not
>> "write only", it has readable and writeable registers.
>
> Are you *sure* there are physically readable registers on the device?
> It's difficult to implement for 7x9 devices given that the top register
> bit is in the byte used to send the register address, I expect you'll
> find that the registers marked as readable are actually those that
> should be cached.
>

You are right, the registers are not physically readable. Sorry for the
confusion.

What I actually was trying to do is to read the cached register values.