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

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 2:57 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

I'll give Patrick a day or two to test/review and then I'll just apply
them all except this one, they are all pretty self-evident except ACPI
things which have obviously been tested on hardware so from my
point of view it's good to merge.

Yours,
Linus Walleij