Re: [RFC 4/7] mfd: ocelot-spi: Change the regmap stride to reflect the real one

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Sun Mar 26 2023 - 20:03:27 EST


> > > static const struct regmap_config ocelot_spi_regmap_config = {
> > > .reg_bits = 24,
> > > - .reg_stride = 4,
> > > + .reg_stride = 1,
> > > .reg_shift = REGMAP_DOWNSHIFT(2),
> > > .val_bits = 32,
> >
> > This does not look like a bisectable change? Or did it never work
> > before?
>
> Actually this works in all cases because of "regmap: check for alignment
> on translated register addresses" in this series. Before this series,
> I think using a stride of 1 would have worked too, as any 4-byte-aligned
> accesses are also 1-byte aligned.

This is the sort of think which is good to explain in the commit
message. That is the place to answer questions reviewers are likely to
ask for things which are not obvious from just the patch.

Andrew