linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] regmap: Add API call apply but not register a patch file

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Message-ID: <20140222021048.GH25940@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Sat, 22 Feb 2014 11:10:48 +0900
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Charles Keepax <ckeepax@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, sameo@...ux.intel.com,
	lee.jones@...aro.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	patches@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] regmap: Add API call apply but not register a patch
 file

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 07:37:11PM +0000, Charles Keepax wrote:
> This patch provides a new regmap API call that allows a patch to be
> applied but not registered with the regmap core. Common code between
> this and the existing regmap_register_patch function is factored out to
> reduce duplication.

This is just regmap_multi_reg_write() I think?  That already exists, the
theory was that we're going to get an optimised version of that for some
hardware which can stream things and cut out some overheads though that
doesn't seem to have materialised yet.

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