Messages in this thread | | | From | Rabin Vincent <> | Date | Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:02:35 +0530 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] mfd/stmpe: Add SPI interface support |
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On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 15:59, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com> wrote: > On 11/11/2011 3:13 PM, Rabin Vincent wrote: >> Could you instead convert stmpe to use the register map API, and then >> add the SPI interface? Converting to regmap should both simplify the >> existing code as well as make it possible to add the second interface >> with fewer lines of code. > > Sorry Rabin, but i couldn't get your comment completely. :( > Can you please spend few lines on "what do you mean by register map API"?
drivers/base/regmap, added in b83a313bf25 ("regmap: Add generic non-memory mapped register access API").
Several MFDs are already using it (git grep regmap drivers/mfd/), and patches to convert more are making the rounds on the lists. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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