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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] mfd: arizona: Use new regmap features for manual register patch
> On the wm5102 the register patches are applied manually, rather than by
> the regmap core. This application is wrapped in calls to
> regcache_cache_bypass. However, this is dangerous as other threads may
> be accessing the hardware at the same time as the pm_runtime operations
> and if they do so during the period whilst cache_bypass is enabled those
> writes will miss the cache when they shouldn't.
>
> Apply the register patch using the new regmap_apply_patch function to
> avoid this problem. Also remove the call to regcache_cache_bypass from
> the hardware patch application as it is unneeded there and creates a
> similar window for writes to miss the cache.
>
> Signed-off-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> ---
> drivers/mfd/arizona-core.c | 4 ----
> drivers/mfd/wm5102-tables.c | 19 ++-----------------
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

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