Re: [PATCH] regmap: introduce tables for readable/writeable/volatile/precious checks

From: Davide Ciminaghi
Date: Tue Nov 20 2012 - 03:41:29 EST


On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 03:05:11PM +0900, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 02:31:53PM +0100, Davide Ciminaghi wrote:
> > Many of the regmap enabled drivers implementing one or more of the
> > readable, writeable, volatile and precious methods use the same code
> > pattern:
> >
> > return ((reg >= X && reg <= Y) || (reg >= W && reg <= Z) || ...)
> >
> > Switch to a data driven approach, using tables to describe
> > readable/writeable/volatile and precious registers ranges instead.
> > The table based check can still be overridden by passing the usual function
> > pointers via struct regmap_config.
>
> Sorry, the code looks good but I just realised we already have a feature
> called ranges - the paged window support also calls the regions it uses
> ranges. Can I suggest access_table or similar instead? Sorry about
> that - I should've realised.

ok no problem, I'll change the name and resend.

Thanks and regards
Davide

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