From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/16] gpio: add a reusable generic gpio_chip using regmap
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 19:39:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200414183921.GN5412@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa605af3aee48f0bc62133f398ed7c5d@walle.cc>
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On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 08:36:23PM +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
> Am 2020-04-14 19:21, schrieb Mark Brown:
> > You could define REGMAP_INVALID_ADDR to be (unsigned int)(-1) or some
> > other suitably implausible address and use that as a value. It's
> > possible that there might be a collision with a real address on some
> > device but it should be sufficiently unlikely to be useful, especially
> > if it's not something regmap in general goes and evaluates. For extra
> > safety we could have an API for allowing users to query the register
> > validity information regmap has (or can be given) and gpiolib could then
> > use that to figure out if the value was actually a dummy value but
> > that's probably overdoing it.
> If possible, I'd like to have the opposite logic. That is, if it is not
> set it should be invalid. If we have a magic macro like
> REGMAP_INVALID_ADDR, we must assign it to all the unused addresses. Thus
> every driver would have to assign all addresses and if in the future
> there will be some added, we'd have to touch all the drivers which use
> gpio_regmap.
Sure, for that you'd need a separate flag since zero is such a commonly
valid address.
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-02 20:36 [PATCH v2 00/16] Add support for Kontron sl28cpld Michael Walle
2020-04-02 20:36 ` [PATCH v2 01/16] include/linux/ioport.h: add helper to define REG resource constructs Michael Walle
2020-04-02 20:36 ` [PATCH v2 02/16] mfd: mfd-core: Don't overwrite the dma_mask of the child device Michael Walle
2020-04-02 20:36 ` [PATCH v2 03/16] mfd: mfd-core: match device tree node against reg property Michael Walle
2020-04-02 20:36 ` [PATCH v2 04/16] regmap-irq: make it possible to add irq_chip do a specific device node Michael Walle
2020-04-14 15:37 ` Applied "regmap-irq: make it possible to add irq_chip do a specific device node" to the regmap tree Mark Brown
2020-04-14 17:12 ` [PATCH v2 04/16] regmap-irq: make it possible to add irq_chip do a specific device node Mark Brown
2020-04-02 20:36 ` [PATCH v2 05/16] dt-bindings: mfd: Add bindings for sl28cpld Michael Walle
2020-04-02 20:36 ` [PATCH v2 06/16] mfd: Add support for Kontron sl28cpld management controller Michael Walle
2020-04-02 20:36 ` [PATCH v2 07/16] irqchip: add sl28cpld interrupt controller support Michael Walle
2020-04-02 20:36 ` [PATCH v2 08/16] watchdog: add support for sl28cpld watchdog Michael Walle
2020-04-03 6:25 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-04-02 20:36 ` [PATCH v2 09/16] pwm: add support for sl28cpld PWM controller Michael Walle
2020-04-02 20:36 ` [PATCH v2 10/16] gpio: add a reusable generic gpio_chip using regmap Michael Walle
2020-04-06 7:47 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-04-06 10:10 ` Michael Walle
2020-04-14 9:50 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-04-14 10:07 ` Michael Walle
2020-04-14 17:00 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-04-14 18:41 ` Michael Walle
2020-04-14 19:57 ` Michael Walle
2020-04-16 9:20 ` Linus Walleij
2020-04-16 9:34 ` Michael Walle
2020-04-14 17:21 ` Mark Brown
2020-04-14 18:36 ` Michael Walle
2020-04-14 18:39 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2020-04-16 9:27 ` Linus Walleij
2020-04-17 6:34 ` Michael Walle
2020-04-21 10:50 ` Michael Walle
2020-04-02 20:36 ` [PATCH v2 11/16] gpio: add support for the sl28cpld GPIO controller Michael Walle
2020-04-16 8:34 ` Linus Walleij
2020-04-16 8:55 ` Michael Walle
2020-04-02 20:36 ` [PATCH v2 12/16] hwmon: add support for the sl28cpld hardware monitoring controller Michael Walle
2020-04-02 21:30 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-04-02 20:36 ` [PATCH v2 13/16] arm64: dts: freescale: sl28: enable sl28cpld Michael Walle
2020-04-02 20:36 ` [PATCH v2 14/16] arm64: dts: freescale: sl28: map GPIOs to input events Michael Walle
2020-04-02 20:36 ` [PATCH v2 15/16] arm64: dts: freescale: sl28: enable LED support Michael Walle
2020-04-02 20:36 ` [PATCH v2 16/16] arm64: dts: freescale: sl28: enable fan support Michael Walle
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