Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] RTL8231 GPIO expander support

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 12:18 PM Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am 2021-06-01 11:59, schrieb Linus Walleij:

> > Just regarding all registers/memory cells in a register page
> > as default volatile (which is what we do a lot of the time)
> > has its upsides: bugs like this doesn't happen.
>
> I don't think this is the bug here. If it is really a write-only
> register
> the problem is the read in RMW. Because reading the register will return
> the input value instead of the (previously written) output value.

True that. Write and read semantics differ on the register.

Volatile is used for this and some other things,
like for example interrupts being cleared when a register
is read so it is strictly read-once.

So the regmap config is really important to get right.

IIUC one of the ambitions around Rust is to encode this
in how memory is specified in the language. (I am still
thinking about whether that is really a good idea or not.)

Yours,
Linus Walleij