On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 11:45:46AM +0200, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:

> > It is not at all clear to me that the combination of stride and
> > downshift particularly makes sense, and especially not that the
> > stride should be applied after downshifting rather than to what
> > the user is passing in.

> I agree on the part where the ordering of "adding and offset, then
> down/upshifting" isn't natural. This is the order in which operations
> are done today, and from what I could gather, only the ocelot-spi MFD
> driver uses both of these operations.

Right.  I don't think the ordering is particularly intentional,
like I say it's not clear that combinding the two makes sense so
I think it just wasn't considered at all.