linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V1] regmap: Bypassing cache when initializing cache

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Message-ID: <20120217172124.GE10146@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Date:	Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:21:24 -0800
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, lars@...afoo.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V1] regmap: Bypassing cache when initializing cache

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 06:57:26PM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
> During regcache_init, if client has not passed the
> default data of cached register then it is directly
> read from the hw to initialize cache. This hw register
> read happens before cache ops are initialized and hence
> avoiding register read to check for the data available
> on cache or not by enabling flag of cache_bypass.

Applied, thanks.  This only affects the code after the addition of cache
integration for bulk I/O so I've added it to that branch.

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