Re: [PATCH 1/7] iio: inv_mpu6050: Do burst reads using spi/i2c directly

From: Mark Brown
Date: Mon May 02 2016 - 11:25:09 EST


On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 06:11:50PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:

Please fix your mail client to word wrap within paragraphs at something
substantially less than 80 columns. Doing this makes your messages much
easier to read and reply to.

> On 29/04/16 20:02, Crestez Dan Leonard wrote:
> > Using regmap_read_bulk is wrong because it assumes that a range of
> > registers is being read. In our case reading from the fifo register will
> > return multiple values but this is *not* auto-increment.

> > This currently works by accident.

> Cc'd Mark again. He's the regmap maintainer (amongst other things) so
> a series doing slightly odd things with regmap should probably have been
> cc'd to him in the first place.

> Perhaps regmap should have a repeat read function for this sort of fifo access?
> Mark, is this something you'd consider? Easy enough to implement after all as
> a variant on regmap_read_bulk...

> Having the below in a driver just feels wrong to me....

That doesn't sound like a crazy idea, please send patches for proposed
extensions.

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