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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] regmap: Allow caches for devices with no defaults
On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 02:44:36PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> We only really need the defaults in order to cut down the number of
> registers we sync and to satisfy reads while the device is powered off
> but not all devices are going to need to do that (always on devices like
> PMICs being the prime example) so don't require those devices to supply
> a default. Instead only try to fall back to hardware defaults if the
> driver told us to.
>
> Devices using LZO won't be able to instantiate with this, that will require
> some updates in the LZO code to handle this case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> ---
> drivers/base/regmap/regcache.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/regmap/regcache.c b/drivers/base/regmap/regcache.c
> index 67c7703..666f6f5 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/regmap/regcache.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/regmap/regcache.c
> @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ int regcache_init(struct regmap *map)
> if (!tmp_buf)
> return -ENOMEM;
> map->reg_defaults = tmp_buf;
> - } else {
> + } else if (map->num_reg_defaults_raw) {
> /* Some devices such as PMICs don't have cache defaults,
> * we cope with this by reading back the HW registers and
> * crafting the cache defaults by hand.
> --
> 1.7.6.3

We could probably then also remove the first check in
regcache_hw_init() I guess.

The one:

if (!map->num_reg_defaults_raw)
return -EINVAL;

Thanks,
Dimitris


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