Re: [RFC] regmap: Add regmap_pipe_read API

[Lars-Peter Clausen]

On 06/17/2016 09:04 AM, Crestez Dan Leonard wrote:
> On 06/16/2016 06:43 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> Hi Leonard,
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Crestez Dan Leonard
>> <leonard.crestez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> The regmap API usually assumes that bulk read operations will read a
>>> range of registers but some I2C/SPI devices have certain registers for
>>> which a such a read operation will return data from an internal FIFO
>>> instead. Add an explicit API to support bulk read with pipe rather than
>>> range semantics.
>>
>> Please settle on either "fifo" or "pipe", instead of mixing both.
>> Personally, I prefer the former.
> 
> Well, it doesn't have to be a fifo. The device can return data from some
> other kind of buffer (maybe a stack). I can adjust the documentation to
> clarify.
> 
> I considered naming it something like regmap_multi_read_one_reg or
> something but regmap_pipe_read sounds reasonable and short.

stream might be another option, but pipe is ok in my opinion.