linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pmbus: added possibility to change timeout for device update

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Message-ID: <cf1535cf-7a76-6d4d-a23f-72077db821ac@nokia.com>
Date:   Thu, 2 Nov 2017 17:17:21 +0100
From:   Romain Porte <romain.porte@...ia.com>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pmbus: added possibility to change timeout for device
 update

On 02/11/2017 14:58, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> NACK, I'd rather drop the caching entirely, and possibly convert the 
> driver to
> regmap for caching non-volatile registers.
I need to familiarize myself with regmap then, it looks like a nice 
abstraction to have.

Do you think I can propose an intermediate patch for removing the cache 
support? (both time-based and data->valid based, so that every read 
actually performs a read, everytime)

Romain.