Re: [PATCH platform-next v1 5/8] platform/mellanox: mlxreg-io: Add support for complex attributes

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Jul 09 2020 - 12:38:04 EST


On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 12:19 PM Vadim Pasternak <vadimp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Add support for attributes composed from few registers.
> Such attributes could occupy from 2 to 4 sequential registers.
> For word size register space complex attribute can occupy up to two

attributes

> register, for byte size - up to four. These attributes can carry, for

registers

> example, CPLD or FPGA versioning, power consuming info, etcetera.
> Such registers contain read only data.

read-only.

...

> + * There are four kinds of attributes: single bit, full register's
> + * bits, bit sequence, bits in few registers For the first kind field
> + * mask indicates which bits are not related and field bit is set zero.
> + * For the second kind field mask is set to zero and field bit is set
> + * with all bits one. No special handling for such kind of attributes -
> + * pass value as is. For the third kind, field mask indicates which

the field

> + * bits are related and field bit is set to the first bit number (from

the field

> + * 1 to 32) is the bit sequence. For the fourth kind - the number of
> + * registers which should be read for getting an attribute are specified
> + * through 'data->regnum' field.
> */

...

> + /*
> + * Some attributes could occupied few registers in case regmap
> + * bit size is 8 or 16. Compose such attribute from 'regnum'

attributes

> + * registers. Such attributes contain read only data.

read-only

> + */
> + if (data->regnum > 1 && !rw_flag)

This I didn't get. They contain read-only data and here you explicitly
turn down rw_flag == false.
Can you clarify this?

> + return -EINVAL;
> + for (i = 1; i < data->regnum; i++) {
> + ret = regmap_read(regmap, data->reg + i, &val);
> + if (ret)
> + goto access_error;
> +
> + *regval |= rol32(val, regsize * i);
> + }

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko