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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] char/misc patches for 3.10-rc1
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 17:12:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130501161226.GR26160@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201304292250.47699.arnd@arndb.de>

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On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:50:47PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 29 April 2013, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> >  - I'm not seeing what commonalities this thing can have with anything
> > else. Did anybody look at the code? There's nothing generic there.

> It's a simple bus that has addressable registers. We have a generic
> infrastructure for these things in drivers/base/regmap, currently
> handling I2C, SPI and MMIO based buses, which are often used as
> different methods to address the same device endpoints. I think it
> would be sensible to add another one-off type here and convert the
> user(s) to be based on the regmap interface rather than its own
> set of exported symbols.

No need for a special bus type, the regmap core now has support for
supplying read and write callbacks so drivers for devices that look
nothing like a bytestream can use the cache and other infrastructure.
This is a good idea anyway for a PMIC since the regulator API has a
large set of regmap based helpers for the standard operations so we'd
probably save a bunch of code in the regulator driver too.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-01 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-29 16:21 [GIT PATCH] char/misc patches for 3.10-rc1 Greg KH
2013-04-29 18:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-04-29 18:38   ` Greg KH
2013-04-29 18:55     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-04-29 19:02       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-04-29 19:15       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-04-29 19:54         ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-29 20:12           ` Linus Torvalds
2013-04-29 20:50             ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-29 21:13               ` Linus Torvalds
2013-04-29 21:22                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-05-01 16:12               ` Mark Brown [this message]
2013-04-29 21:08             ` David Brown
2013-04-29 21:16               ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-05-01 16:13                 ` Mark Brown
2013-05-02 20:53                   ` David Brown
2013-05-03  8:06                     ` Mark Brown
2013-04-29 21:18               ` Linus Torvalds
2013-04-29 21:29                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-29 22:00                 ` MFD: move ssbi driver into drivers/mfd Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-29 22:10                   ` Greg KH
2013-04-29 22:48                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-04-30  0:00                   ` David Brown
2013-04-30 10:18                   ` Samuel Ortiz
2013-04-30 10:26                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-05-16  9:49                   ` Samuel Ortiz
2013-04-29 20:45         ` [GIT PATCH] char/misc patches for 3.10-rc1 Nicolas Pitre

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