linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regmap: add cache validity to REGCACHE

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Message-ID: <911d81b1-0d32-41b1-ac9a-563d13ef9402@sirena.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 12:43:23 +0000
From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To: Sander Vanheule <sander@...nheule.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regmap: add cache validity to REGCACHE_FLAT

On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 11:02:56AM +0100, Sander Vanheule wrote:

> Since this makes the flat cache behave more like other caches, a special
> case in the read_writeonly unit test can also be dropped. This reverts
> commit d0c99ffe2126 ("regmap: Allow reads from write only registers with
> the flat cache").

This makes the flat cache a sparse cache so all the current sparse tests
should now be valid for it.

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