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From: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
To: Evan Green <evgreen@chromium.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>,
	Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
	Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] nvmem: qfprom: Don't touch certain fuses
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 10:12:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14b62a74-4b4f-42b9-6043-ab8445a3f627@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE=gft4eDRBSuAQmiZQs3LegVyERWAJSmvmHKEY1N=z5HSViJQ@mail.gmail.com>



On 01/10/2020 22:49, Evan Green wrote:
> Oh no, I realized this isn't nearly as beautiful when I try to move it
> into the core. The low level read/write interface between the nvmem
> core and the driver is a range. So to move this into the core I'd have
> to implement all the overlap computation logic to potentially break up
> a read into several small reads in cases where there are many little
> keepout ranges. It was much simpler when I could just check each byte
> offset individually, and because I was doing it in this one
> rarely-used driver I could make that performance tradeoff without much
> penalty.
> 
> I could do all range/overlap handling if you want, but it'll be a
> bigger change, and I worry my driver would be the only one to end up
> using it. What do you think?

I still think this should go in to core. core should be able to avoid 
checking by the presence of any restricted range, so it should not be a 
overhead for other non-users. regmap has similar feature we can take 
some inspiration from that code!!


--srini


> -Evan

      reply	other threads:[~2020-10-05  9:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-29 20:58 [PATCH 0/3] nvmem: qfprom: Avoid untouchable regions Evan Green
2020-09-29 20:58 ` [PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: nvmem: Add qcom,sc7180-qfprom compatible string Evan Green
2020-10-02 22:20   ` Doug Anderson
2020-10-02 23:14     ` Evan Green
2020-10-05  9:15       ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2020-09-29 20:58 ` [PATCH 2/3] arm64: dts: qcom: sc7180: Add soc-specific qfprom compat string Evan Green
2020-10-02 22:24   ` Doug Anderson
2020-09-29 20:58 ` [PATCH 3/3] nvmem: qfprom: Don't touch certain fuses Evan Green
2020-10-01 14:17   ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2020-10-01 16:27     ` Evan Green
2020-10-01 16:30       ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2020-10-01 21:49         ` Evan Green
2020-10-05  9:12           ` Srinivas Kandagatla [this message]

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