Re: [PATCH 0/5] fsi: Add regmap and refactor sbefifo

From: Eddie James
Date: Wed Oct 19 2022 - 15:00:04 EST



On 10/18/22 13:00, Mark Brown wrote:
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 09:02:33AM -0500, Eddie James wrote:
On 10/17/22 12:37, Mark Brown wrote:
Is there any great reason to provide support in the regmap core for this
rather than just implementing in drivers/fsi? AFAICT this is just
ending up as an implementation detail of shared code in drivers/fsi and
won't have any external users?
One reason is to have a common interface with the new FSI regmap. That way
abstracting out the bus transfer is trivial in the new SBEFIFO driver,
assuming the SBEFIFO driver should switch to use the FSI regmap.
But you are correct, I doubt anyone else will use this. I suppose SBEFIFO
may as well not use the regmap and just use some callbacks for whichever bus
transfer...
I'm not saying don't use regmap, I'm saying why not just do this in the
driver - you can just as easily set the reg_read() and reg_write()
callbacks in an individual driver without needing to create a new regmap
bus type for just that one driver to use.


I understand. That sounds like a good approach then, I'll work on that for v2.

Thanks,

Eddie