Re: [PATCH 1/2] ASoC: codecs: wsa883x: do not set can_multi_write flag

[Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>]

On 24/05/2023 10:48, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 10:42:21AM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
>> On 24/05/2023 09:57, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
>>> I'm unclear, is this a limitation of the hardware or of the current
>>> Soundwire code?
> 
>> Its both.
> 
>> Codec itself does not have any private write callback to support this and
>> AFAIU Qualcomm Soundwire controller does not have any such hw facility to
>> program multi-registers for device at one shot.
> 
> How about the *CODEC* hardware?
> 
No, Codec does not have any such interface to write to device registers 
directly without going via Soundwire.

>> Is write callback used for both Bulk writes and multi-writes?
> 
> Only multi-write at this point but we probably should consider redoing
> bulk writes to use it as well.

By the looks of the code, its other way around.

> 
>> Is multi-write feature of regmap bus or device?
> 
> Well, I don't think any buses that understand registers have implemented
> it yet but there's nothing fundamental that means that a bus couldn't
> usefully do something with multi-write.  The current users all use raw
> buses that don't know anything about registers or values.