linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] regmap: add dummy regmap_can_raw

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Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 2016 07:45:47 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rjendra@....qualcomm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] regmap: add dummy regmap_can_raw_write() to header

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 06:39:13PM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> This patch adds dummy function for regmap_can_raw_write() in the header
> file, so that the code can be atleast compiled without regmap enabled.
> This kind of setup is mostly tested using randomconfig or zero
> day-testing.

I'm not convinced that this isn't flagging real problems - it's hard to
see how code can safely and sensibly be written which would use this
without a dependency on regmap (and given that and the fact that we have
no external users we should probably make it internal to the API).

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