On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 10:48:32AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Mark Brown (2020-10-02 09:03:24)

> > ...and doing this in the dev_name() should help other diagnostic users
> > (like dev_printk() for example).

> Don't thinks like dev_printk() prefix the bus name? See
> dev_driver_string()? So I agree that having the bus name is useful, but
> confused why there are testing scripts and things on top of regmap
> debugfs

Not that I've ever noticed, eg on the console.

> Put another way, why not introduce something similar to i2c-dev where
> userspace can read/write registers for devices on the SPMI bus?
> Otherwise I presume the test scripts inside Qualcomm are just reading
> registers out of regmap?

I know some other vendors use the regmap debugfs for their diagnostic
tools (obviously not with SPMI).  It's generally so they can get the
benefit of the cache, it's a combination of allowing the state to be
inspected while the driver has the device powered down and for devices
on slower buses being much more performant.