Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Add new reg_update_bits() support

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 10:58 AM Baolin Wang <baolin.wang7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The Spreadtrum platform uses a special set/clear method to update
> registers' bits, thus this patch set introduces a new reg_update_bits()
> callback, as well as adding a helper in syscon driver to support
> this feature.
>
> Any comments are welcome. Thanks.

This looks like a good idea to me, both the concept and the implementation.

The one thing I'd note is that we have a similar mechanism for devices made
by Sigmatel and later Freescale after they acquired them.
include/linux/stmp_device.h only holds a couple of definitions, so it's much
less abstract than your approach, but the idea is similar.

It would be nice in theory to move the sigmatel devices over to
reg_update_bits() in theory, but this seems unlikely to actually happen,
given that these are mostly obsolete drivers at this point.

      Arnd