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From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
To: kunyi@google.com
Cc: "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
	Tomer Maimon <tmaimon77@gmail.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	avifishman70@gmail.com,
	OpenBMC Maillist <openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] pinctrl: pinctrl-npcm7xx: Set BGPIOF_VOLATILE_REG
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:08:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACRpkdbS_aOpFORVnK3QJUsF1p-mVxtMas-q6fOp7emTx281Lg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181017213012.233957-3-kunyi@google.com>

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 11:30 PM Kun Yi <kunyi@google.com> wrote:

> Indicate that the pins are both controlled by the pinctrl driver and the
> generic GPIO driver, thus GPIO driver should read the register value
> before updating, instead of using the stored shadow register values.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kun Yi <kunyi@google.com>

This is quite a rough measure, if we instead use regmap-mmio
we can exercise fine control over what register are volatile and
not instead of saying that all of them or some of them are.

Yours,
Linus Walleij

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-30 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-17 21:30 [PATCH 0/2] Allow gpio-mmio to co-exist with pinctrl driver Kun Yi
2018-10-17 21:30 ` [PATCH 1/2] gpio: gpio-mmio: Allow volatile shadow regs Kun Yi
2018-10-18 11:49   ` kbuild test robot
2018-10-30 12:06   ` Linus Walleij
2018-10-17 21:30 ` [PATCH 2/2] pinctrl: pinctrl-npcm7xx: Set BGPIOF_VOLATILE_REG Kun Yi
2018-10-30 12:08   ` Linus Walleij [this message]
2018-10-31  5:06     ` Kun Yi

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