linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/21] ASoC: io: Prevent use of regmap if request fails

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Date:	Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:23:11 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	STEricsson_nomadik_linux@...t.st.com, linus.walleij@...ricsson.com,
	arnd@...db.de, sameo@...ux.intel.com, olalilja@...oo.se,
	ola.o.lilja@...ricsson.com, alsa-devel@...a-project.org, lrg@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/21] ASoC: io: Prevent use of regmap if request fails

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 05:05:51PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On 26/07/12 16:25, Mark Brown wrote:

> >You're supposed to use it for the data you use to call back into the
> >underlying I/O code.

> I don't understand. What 'data'?

Whatever your I/O layer so desires, the core doesn't care.  It's
generally whatever the lower layer that does your I/O takes to identify
the device.

> Surely if .read and .write are populated in 'struct
> snd_soc_codec_driver', then it should just call back into those?

Yes, and in fact that's what we do!

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