Re: [PATCH v1 03/17] pinctrl: cy8c95x0: Allow most of the registers to be cached

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Mon Sep 05 2022 - 08:58:20 EST


On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 09:42:00PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 9:36 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > It's unclear why many of static registers were marked as volatile.
>
> the static (yeah, forgot it)
>
> > They are pretty much bidirectional and static in a sense that
> > written value is kept there until a new write or chip reset.
> > Drop those registers from the list to allow them to be cached.
>
> This patch is not correct due to indexing access. It's sneaked since I
> forgot I added it into my main repo. The proper approach should be to
> create virtual registers and decode them before use. This allows to
> cache all ports and as a benefit to debug print all port actual
> statuses.

To be clear: With this one removed from the bunch the rest can be applied w.o.
any change.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko