Re: [PATCH 1/5] max44000: Initial commit

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 03:15:54PM +0300, Crestez Dan Leonard wrote:

> As a further clarification: regmap_write will write to hardware even if
> the cache is known to be up-to-date and no matter the regcache_type. Did
> I understand this correctly?

> I'm basing this on reading the code, it seems to me that map->reg_write
> is only avoided on error paths or if map->cache_only is set to true.

> This always-write guarantee is not obvious and if it's OK for drivers to
> rely on it perhaps it should be explicitly documented on regmap_write.

Yes.  I have to say that you are the first person I've encountered who
has been confused by this, I'm not sure why you'd expect writes to be
discarded.

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