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Date:   Mon, 5 Sep 2022 15:30:08 +0200
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Patrick Rudolph <patrick.rudolph@...ements.com>,
        "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 03/17] pinctrl: cy8c95x0: Allow most of the registers
 to be cached

On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 2:57 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 09:42:00PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 9:36 PM Andy Shevchenko
> > <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > It's unclear why many of static registers were marked as volatile.
> >
> > the static (yeah, forgot it)
> >
> > > They are pretty much bidirectional and static in a sense that
> > > written value is kept there until a new write or chip reset.
> > > Drop those registers from the list to allow them to be cached.
> >
> > This patch is not correct due to indexing access. It's sneaked since I
> > forgot I added it into my main repo. The proper approach should be to
> > create virtual registers and decode them before use. This allows to
> > cache all ports and as a benefit to debug print all port actual
> > statuses.
>
> To be clear: With this one removed from the bunch the rest can be applied w.o.
> any change.

I'll give Patrick a day or two to test/review and then I'll just apply
them all except this one, they are all pretty self-evident except ACPI
things which have obviously been tested on hardware so from my
point of view it's good to merge.

Yours,
Linus Walleij

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