linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] hwmon: (gxp-fan-ctrl) Add GXP fan controller

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Date:   Tue, 29 Nov 2022 17:13:55 +0000
From:   "Hawkins, Nick" <nick.hawkins@....com>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
CC:     "jdelvare@...e.com" <jdelvare@...e.com>,
        "robh+dt@...nel.org" <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        "krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org" 
        <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        "Verdun, Jean-Marie" <verdun@....com>,
        "corbet@....net" <corbet@....net>,
        "linux@...linux.org.uk" <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        "linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org" <linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] hwmon: (gxp-fan-ctrl) Add GXP fan controller

> > +		writeb(val, drvdata->base + channel);

> The mixed use of direct writes and regmap is odd and confusing.
> Why use regmap for plreg_map and for fn2_map but not for base ?
> Can this be unified ? If not, why ?

I will still require three separate areas to access these registers as they
are spaced far apart (> 0x20000000). I will create a comment to
explain this. As for being unified methods I believe they can be
all __iomem's or regmaps.

Thanks,

-Nick Hawkins