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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Quan Nguyen <quan@os.amperecomputing.com>
Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>, Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>,
	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.com>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
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	linux-aspeed@lists.ozlabs.org, openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	Derek Kiernan <derek.kiernan@xilinx.com>,
	Dragan Cvetic <dragan.cvetic@xilinx.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Gustavo Pimentel <Gustavo.Pimentel@synopsys.com>,
	Open Source Submission <patches@amperecomputing.com>,
	Phong Vo <phong@os.amperecomputing.com>,
	"Thang Q . Nguyen" <thang@os.amperecomputing.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 5/9] regmap: Introduces regmap lock helpers
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2021 13:19:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YcXI73GKNdx/gvUb@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211224041352.29405-6-quan@os.amperecomputing.com>

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On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 11:13:48AM +0700, Quan Nguyen wrote:
> This commit introduces regmap_acquire/release_lock() functions and makes
> them available for drivers that need atomic access of regmap registers

You've not explained what something would need this for and how
it's expected to work - we don't provide unlocked access to the
regmap to client drivers so I don't see how one could safely use
this.  It's unclear to me what this would mean or why it's not
better implemented in the client driver.

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-24 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-24  4:13 [PATCH v6 0/9] Add Ampere's Altra SMPro MFD and its child drivers Quan Nguyen
2021-12-24  4:13 ` [PATCH v6 1/9] dt-bindings: mfd: Add bindings for Ampere Altra SMPro MFD driver Quan Nguyen
2021-12-24  4:13 ` [PATCH v6 2/9] mfd: smpro-mfd: Adds Ampere's Altra SMpro " Quan Nguyen
2022-02-08  9:12   ` Lee Jones
2022-03-07  8:31   ` Quan Nguyen
2021-12-24  4:13 ` [PATCH v6 3/9] hwmon: smpro: Add Ampere's Altra smpro-hwmon driver Quan Nguyen
2021-12-24  4:13 ` [PATCH v6 4/9] docs: hwmon: (smpro-hwmon) Add documentation Quan Nguyen
2021-12-24  4:13 ` [PATCH v6 5/9] regmap: Introduces regmap lock helpers Quan Nguyen
2021-12-24 13:19   ` Mark Brown [this message]
2022-03-07  8:31     ` Quan Nguyen
2021-12-24  4:13 ` [PATCH v6 6/9] misc: smpro-errmon: Add Ampere's SMpro error monitor driver Quan Nguyen
2021-12-24  8:32   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-03-07  8:32     ` Quan Nguyen
2021-12-24 13:28   ` Mark Brown
2022-03-07  8:30     ` Quan Nguyen
2021-12-29 10:16   ` Lee Jones
2022-03-07  8:31   ` Quan Nguyen
2021-12-24  4:13 ` [PATCH v6 7/9] docs: misc-devices: (smpro-errmon) Add documentation Quan Nguyen
2021-12-24  4:13 ` [PATCH v6 8/9] misc: smpro-misc: Add Ampere's Altra SMpro misc driver Quan Nguyen
2021-12-29 10:18   ` Lee Jones
2022-03-07  8:32   ` Quan Nguyen
2022-03-07 13:16     ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-12-24  4:13 ` [PATCH v6 9/9] docs: misc-devices: (smpro-misc) Add documentation Quan Nguyen

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