From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Davide Ciminaghi <ciminaghi@gnudd.com>
Cc: sameo@linux.intel.com, rubini@gnudd.com,
giancarlo.asnaghi@st.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] sta2x11-mfd : add apb-soc regs driver and factor out common code
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:49:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120927134919.GW4428@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120927134110.GD6799@mail.gnudd.com>
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 03:41:10PM +0200, Davide Ciminaghi wrote:
> Maybe there's another solution: what about adding a couple of function
> pointers (lock, unlock) to struct regmap_config ? If they're set to NULL,
> everything works as usual. If they're not NULL, regmap uses such functions
> to do locking and unlocking instead of the usual ones (and regmap_bus.fast_io
> is ignored). I think this wouldn't hurt existing regmap users and allow
> sta2x11-mfd to have just one spinlock for everything, no need for nested
> locking this way.
That might work, yes, and would be generally useful I think. Or we
could add regmap based versions of the clock utilities (which would also
be useful anyway). Or both.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-27 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-12 10:22 [PATCH 0/8 RESEND] sta2x11-mfd patches ciminaghi
2012-09-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 1/8] sta2x11-mfd : add apb-soc regs driver and factor out common code ciminaghi
2012-09-25 19:20 ` Mark Brown
2012-09-26 14:56 ` Davide Ciminaghi
2012-09-26 15:04 ` Mark Brown
2012-09-26 16:31 ` Davide Ciminaghi
2012-09-26 16:49 ` Mark Brown
2012-09-27 8:39 ` Davide Ciminaghi
2012-09-27 8:56 ` Davide Ciminaghi
2012-09-27 13:41 ` Davide Ciminaghi
2012-09-27 13:49 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2012-09-28 8:43 ` Davide Ciminaghi
2012-09-28 10:52 ` Mark Brown
2012-09-27 14:13 ` Alan Cox
2012-09-28 15:29 ` Davide Ciminaghi
2012-09-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 2/8] sta2x11-mfd : add sta2x11_mfd_get_regs_data() function ciminaghi
2012-09-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 3/8] sta2x11-mfd : use defines for platform devices' names ciminaghi
2012-09-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 4/8] sta2x11-mfd : only add sta2x11_mfd if it hasn't already been added ciminaghi
2012-09-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 5/8] sta2x11-mfd : platform probe: don't mind about gpio platform data ciminaghi
2012-09-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 6/8] sta2x11-mfd : use one lock per device instead of one lock per mfd ciminaghi
2012-09-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 7/8] sta2x11-mfd : add defines for some sta2x11 sctl registers ciminaghi
2012-09-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 8/8] sta2x11-mfd : add myself to copyright ciminaghi
2012-09-16 21:25 ` [PATCH 0/8 RESEND] sta2x11-mfd patches Alessandro Rubini
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2012-09-12 10:11 ciminaghi
2012-09-12 10:11 ` [PATCH 1/8] sta2x11-mfd : add apb-soc regs driver and factor out common code ciminaghi
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