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Message-ID: <20111025083633.GB31508@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:36:34 +0200
From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@....ac.uk>
Cc: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@...il.com>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
dmitry.torokhov@...il.com, sameo@...ux.intel.com,
peter.ujfalusi@...com, aghayal@...eaurora.org, david@...deman.nu,
Shubhrajyoti@...com, saaguirre@...com, hemanthv@...com,
linux-input@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 4/6] input/cma3000_d0x: Add CMA3000 spi support
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 09:32:27AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 10/25/11 08:24, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> > It is not on linux-next, and also it cannot be used directly, in order
> > to read you have to do set reg= (reg << 2) | 2; And AFAIK it is not
> > supported by the regmap
> My gut feeling is it would easy enough to add if it can't currently
> be done. Mark?
That should be trivial to add - the | 2 bit is already supported in
-next and will be sent to Linus this merge window, adding the shift is
just a simple matter of programming.
> Gains here are leveraging the bus abstractions from there. There aren't
> enough registers to gain from caching etc.
Depends on the workload more than the number of registers - if you're
able to eliminate enough reads then it can give a bit of a performance
boost. But it's completely optional either way.
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