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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com>,
	vkoul@kernel.org, yung-chuan.liao@linux.intel.com,
	sanyog.r.kale@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	patches@opensource.cirrus.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] regmap: sdw: Remove 8-bit value size restriction
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 19:50:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y8BkiF8sfqPifYTO@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3320e6b8-28c7-d028-3c4c-2b4b25a963fb@linux.intel.com>

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On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 12:43:46PM -0600, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> On 1/12/23 12:14, Mark Brown wrote:

> > The regmap gather_write() operation allows the bus to take two buffers,
> > one for the register and one for the value, rather than requiring the
> > core combine everything into a single buffer (mainly useful for large
> > transfers like firmware downloads).

> Right, but that's not supported in SoundWire. sdw_nwrite() will only
> work with consecutive addresses - and the auto-increment is handled in
> software, not hardware.

No, that's exactly what this is for.  It's for the *register address*
being in a separate buffer, the data is then a sequence of consecutive
register values.

> What's suggested here is to use the first element of reg_buf, which begs
> the question how different this is from a regular write. If there was a
> discontinuity in reg_buf then this wouldn't work at all.

reg_buf contains the address of exactly one register.

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-12 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-12 17:18 [PATCH 0/2] Minor SoundWire Regmap Tweaks Charles Keepax
2023-01-12 17:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] regmap: sdw: Update misleading comment Charles Keepax
2023-01-12 17:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] regmap: sdw: Remove 8-bit value size restriction Charles Keepax
2023-01-12 17:38   ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2023-01-12 18:14     ` Mark Brown
2023-01-12 18:43       ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2023-01-12 19:50         ` Mark Brown [this message]
2023-01-12 20:19           ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2023-01-13 11:02             ` Charles Keepax
2023-01-13 16:57               ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2023-01-13 17:11                 ` Mark Brown
2023-01-13 18:03                   ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2023-03-10 15:02 ` [PATCH 0/2] Minor SoundWire Regmap Tweaks Mark Brown

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