linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] regmap: debugfs: Optimize seeking within blocks of registers

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Message-ID: <20130208113500.GP8879@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Date:	Fri, 8 Feb 2013 11:35:00 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Dimitris Papastamos <dp@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, patches@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] regmap: debugfs: Optimize seeking within blocks of
 registers

On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 11:40:32AM +0000, Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
> Optimize this so that we can better guess where to start scanning
> from.  We know the length of the register field format, therefore
> given the file pointer position align to the nearest register
> field and scan from there onwards.  We round down in this calculation
> and we let the rest of the code figure out where to start scanning
> from.

This doesn't apply against -next.

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