Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:35:29 +0100 | From | Wolfram Sang <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] regmap: Properly round reg_bytes and val_bytes |
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> Clearly we *can* but there's other bits (chiefly the cache code once we > acquire the ability to do block operations from cache) which really want > stuff to be 8 bit aligned. I deliberately chose to make things byte > aligned so we have to think about this stuff before we do things that > make byte aligned stuff hard, it felt like if we were going to take a > complexity hit we probably want it to be on the odd register formats as > pretty much all of the more demanding modern devices seem to be going > for multiples of 8 bits.
Understood. I'd think we will find a non-intrusive way when a more generic format_x_y-function seems worthwhile.
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