linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/7] regmap: Make reg_config reg

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Date:	Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:36:20 +0100
From:	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
CC:	Dimitris Papastamos <dp@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
	Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@...log.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
	device-drivers-devel@...ckfin.uclinux.org, drivers@...log.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] regmap: Make reg_config reg_defaults const

On 11/16/2011 05:24 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 05:23:33PM +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>> On 11/16/2011 05:13 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
>>> You should've got reams of sparse warnings from that - the indexed cache
>>> is writing to the defaults table (which is very naughty and i keep
>>> thinking about deleting it as a result).
> 
>> This patch makes reg_defaults const in the reg_config struct not in the
>> regmap struct.
> 
>> Since we duplicate the reg_config reg_defaults into the regmap reg_defaults
>> the index cache works on a runtime allocated array. (Though I wouldn't
>> object to see it gone. For the average uscase it uses more memory and is
>> slower than the rbnode cache).
> 
> Did you actually check the sparse output?

No, because the only place we ever look at config->reg_defaults is in
regache_init. And now I just run sparse and as expected regmap doesn't
trigger any warnings or errors.
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