Re: [PATCH 1/4] mfd: mc13783: Take care of semantic inversionbetween read and write value of two bits in POWER_MISCELLANEUSregister.

From: Uwe Kleine-König
Date: Tue Jan 05 2010 - 14:55:46 EST


On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 07:15:42PM +0100, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
> > @@ -187,6 +190,13 @@ int mc13783_reg_write(struct mc13783 *mc13783, unsigned int offset, u32 val)
> >
> > buf = 1 << 31 | offset << MC13783_REGOFFSET_SHIFT | val;
> >
> > + /* Take care of table 4-24 in Freescale MC13783IGPLDRM.pdf making
> > + * the assumption that PWGTnDRV signals controls core power supplies
> > + * that software must not disable. */
> > + if (offset == MC13783_REG_POWER_MISCELLANEOUS)
> > + buf &= ~(MC13783_REGCTRL_PWGT1SPIEN |
> > + MC13783_REGCTRL_PWGT2SPIEN);
> > +
> Although I see where you want to go, I dont really enjoy that solution.
> I would prefere to have specific register write/rmw routines for
> MC13783_REG_POWER_MISCELLANEOUS, and at the same time forbid to access the
> latter from the current mc13783_reg_* API.
Ack. This is what I already suggested in

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/927112/focus=930317

(This happend to be a reply to patch 2/4 as I replied to Alberto's ping
for patches 1 and 2.)

Best regards
Uwe

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