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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/4] regulator: tps65910: update type for regmap
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On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 02:25 -0700, Mark Brown wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 06:00:26PM -0700, Rhyland Klein wrote:
> > When accessing the regmap via the read/write functions, we need to use a
> > unsigned int * instead of a u8 * otherwise corruption will occur.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rhyland Klein <rklein@nvidia.com>
>
> > static inline int tps65910_read(struct tps65910_reg *pmic, u8 reg)
> > {
> > - u8 val;
> > + unsigned int val;
> > int err;
> >
> > err = pmic->mfd->read(pmic->mfd, reg, 1, &val);
>
> Ugh, this interface is just broken all round - there's absolutely no
> type safety here and all users of these functions will be broken (a
> similar issue applies on write). It's much better to fix this for 3.4
> by converting the core code to use regmap_raw_ functions which take
> native formatted data for the device like the function driver API
> actually expects.

Which interface are you saying is broken? The regmap interface or the
one internal to the tps65910 code?

>
> Looking at the MFD code the fix for 3.5 should at the very least involve
> making the functions take typed pointers, though given the way they're
> implemented right now with direct references in the subdevices I'd also
> consider just having the subdevices uses regmap directly as the wrappers
> are just adding an opportunity for error (the bit operations could be
> converted into static inlines in the header too).
>

So to be clear... Your recommendation is to change the tps65910 code to
remove the common read/write callbacks and to use regmap directly in
each component, and then when using regmap, do use the regmap raw
functions instead of the bulkread/write?

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Thanks,
rhyland

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