Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:11:16 +0100 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 02/10] pinctrl: mvebu: dove pinctrl driver |
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On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 05:02:49PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > Nowadays I would do the above with regmap_update_bits(). > > Mutual exclusion for read-modify-write of individual bits in a > register is one of those cases where doing a regmap over > a memory-mapped register range makes a lot of sense. > (drivers/mfd/syscon.c being a nice example)
So, for that solution we need to have some kind of global regmap per register or somesuch. Then you run into regmap needing a struct device - well, with a shared register, which struct device do you use, or do you have to invent one?
That sounds more heavy-weight than is really necessary.
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