Re: [RFC 3/8] mfd:syscon: Introduce claim/read/write/release APIs

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 04:50:22PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> > In many cases a single syconf register contains bits related to multiple
> > devices, and therefore it need to be shared across multiple drivers at
> > bit level. The same IP block can have different syscon mappings on
> > different SOCs.

> My feeling is that syscon is the wrong place for this functionality,
> since regmap already handles (some of?) these issues. If you need
> additional synchronization, it's probably best to extend regmap
> as needed so other code besides syscon can take advantage of that
> as well.

This sounds like regmap_update_bits() ought to be all that's needed.

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