Re: [PATCH] driver/i2c/mux: Add register based mux i2c-mux-reg

From: Alexander Sverdlin
Date: Thu Jun 18 2015 - 03:58:39 EST


Hello!

On 17/06/15 18:43, ext York Sun wrote:
>> > Yeah, this is really bad idea. You maybe want something like
>> > __iomem "cookie" here instead of this bare pointer.
> Let me try.
>

Could you think about different access widths, please?
Not all buses are 32-bits wide and even on 64-bit CPUs one might have 16-bit bus
and 32 bits accesses are not allowed or perform two accesses, etc...

So to cover the use-cases which I see one needs to have a possibility to select between
__raw_writeb()/__raw_writew()/__raw_writel()/__raw_writeq() (now that I'm thinking about
it, I think these native-Endianness functions are preferred and if one has a bus with
different Endianness he should think about the conversion in the reg property of subnodes).

Very important is readback with corresponding __raw_read*(), but maybe you want to do
this optional via additional DT property...

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Best regards,
Alexander Sverdlin.
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