linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9] mfd: Add anatop mfd driver

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Date:	Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:52:54 +0000
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	linaro-dev@...ts.linaro.org, Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	patches@...aro.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Venu Byravarasu <vbyravarasu@...dia.com>,
	Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@...site.dk>,
	"Ying-Chun Liu \(PaulLiu\)" <paul.liu@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9] mfd: Add anatop mfd driver

On Thursday 15 March 2012, Mark Brown wrote:
> There were some other mutterings about using regmap for memory mapped
> devices, mostly from the point of view of building framework features
> like this on top of it.  regmap currently makes some assumptions that
> the I/O is going to be slow so approximately any amount of CPU time can
> usefully be spent on avoiding I/O but we can probably do something about
> that.  It also uses mutexes to lock I/O which might not be the most
> sensible thing for memory mapped devices, but again that's solveable.
> Right now there's no memory mapping support but there's no reason that
> can't be added.
> 
> In short, it does seem sensible to want to have some support for this
> for devices that use appropriate idioms.

Ok, I see. 

I guess there is no reason to change anything in Paul's patch now, but
we can keep this in mind if we see a lot of similar drivers in the future.

Thanks,

	Arnd
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