Re: regcache_sync() errors for read-only registers cache
From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue Mar 03 2015 - 04:09:45 EST
On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 08:15:23PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Mark Brown wrote:
> > Please don't bury patches in the middle of mails, that just means that
> > if the patch is useful it's painful to apply.
> The --scissors option of git am is your friend.
That's still pain.
> > Your patch seems fine but
> > can you please resend in a directly applyable format unless something in
> > the below indicates against that...
> Hm, so do you think that my patch is the best way to fix? I wasn't
> sure about it, that's why I wrote in that style.
Well, it's either that or adding the values read back from the chip to
the defaults.
> > > Also, _regmap_write() itself calls again regmap_writeable(), so it's
> > > superfluous. Alternatively, we may check -EIO from _regmap_write()
> > > and treat as a special case not to show the error. Or, add a
> > > parameter to skip regmap_writeable() call.
> > I'm sorry but I can't parse the above - what is "it" in this context?
> regmap_wrietable() call in _regmap_write().
It's superfluous with respect to what? Still a bit confused, sorry.
> > Silently ignoring -EIO from the physical register write sounds like a
> > very bad idea though, that seems likely to discard actual errors.
> Right, in that case, a special error code might be used. But this
> sounds like an overkill, too.
It also sounds like it's heading towards the complex and fragile.
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