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SubjectRe: [PATCH 5/7] regmap: Check if a register is writable instead of readable in regcache_read
On 11/16/2011 05:16 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 04:28:20PM +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>
>> Currently regcache checks whether a register is readable when performing a
>> cached read and returns an error if not. Change this check to test whether the
>> register is writable. This makes more sense, since reading from the cache when
>> the register is not readable allows the operation described above, but if the
>> register is not writable there shouldn't be a value for it in the cache anyway.
>
> This logic doesn't entirely follow - one can have registers which are
> volatile but could be read once at startup. Plus...

Hm? The use case here is chips which do not support readback. So we never
want to fallback to a hardware read but still want to be able to do a cached
read.

>
>> @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ int regcache_read(struct regmap *map,
>>
>> BUG_ON(!map->cache_ops);
>>
>> - if (!regmap_readable(map, reg))
>> + if (!regmap_writeable(map, reg))
>> return -EIO;
>
> ...the code winds up just looking like an obvious bug.

Why? If a register is not writable we won't have anything in the cache for
it. So reading from the cache for a register which is not writable doesn't
make any sense.


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