Re: [PATCH 2/7] regmap: Make reg_config reg_defaults const

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed Nov 16 2011 - 11:24:46 EST


On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 05:23:33PM +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 11/16/2011 05:13 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > You should've got reams of sparse warnings from that - the indexed cache
> > is writing to the defaults table (which is very naughty and i keep
> > thinking about deleting it as a result).

> This patch makes reg_defaults const in the reg_config struct not in the
> regmap struct.

> Since we duplicate the reg_config reg_defaults into the regmap reg_defaults
> the index cache works on a runtime allocated array. (Though I wouldn't
> object to see it gone. For the average uscase it uses more memory and is
> slower than the rbnode cache).

Did you actually check the sparse output?
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