Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Mar 2014 08:29:51 -0800 | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] mfd: max8997: use regmap to access registers |
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On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 07:42:30AM +0100, Robert Baldyga wrote: > Hi, > > On 03/05/2014 07:54 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > Hi Robert, > > > > On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 03:58:17PM +0100, Robert Baldyga wrote: > >> > >> -int max8997_write_reg(struct i2c_client *i2c, u8 reg, u8 value) > >> +int max8997_write_reg(struct regmap *map, u8 reg, u8 value) > > > > Why don't you make read/write reg to take struct max8997_dev as argument > > instead of regmap? regmap seems to be the current implementation du jur, > > but that is core's detail, functions do not need to care. > > > > Thanks. > > > > It's because there are few regmaps in max8997_dev, and read/write reg > functions has no way to check which regmap should be used. I think it > would be clearer if I remove this functions and use regmap_read and > regmap_write instead, because there is no particular purpose for them.
I see.. Then another question - why do the regmaps belong to the core of the driver instead of individual functions? Why haptic regmap, for example, can not be initialized in haptic code instead?
Thanks.
-- Dmitry
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