On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:06:57AM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:

> I think regmap has the potential to solve a number of issues like the
> hardcoded readl/writel in the common clock blocks, issues with i2c
> clocks and your endianess issue. The biggest question probably is how
> to get there without putting too much of a burden on you. It's probably
> not an option to convert all users to regmap, so it seems additional
> functions like clk_register_gate_regmap are better to handle.

That's basically what regulator does.  There's versions of the ops that
all the drivers can use.