linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] regmap: Add support for continously numbered pages across regmap range

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Date:	Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:29:25 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Mukund Navada <navada@...com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] regmap: Add support for continously numbered pages
 across regmap range

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 02:52:57PM +0530, Mukund Navada wrote:
>   Page number in some devices increases across regmap ranges since the
> selector register to choose the page remains the same. So in order to
> write correct page number, the start_page_num is stored in
> regmap_range_cfg.

I'm sorry but I can't understand what this is supposed to do.  The
current paging code expects pages to be numbered continuously with no
gaps.  Can you please clarify?

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