On 10/18/22 13:00, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 09:02:33AM -0500, Eddie James wrote:
>> On 10/17/22 12:37, Mark Brown wrote:
>>> Is there any great reason to provide support in the regmap core for this
>>> rather than just implementing in drivers/fsi? AFAICT this is just
>>> ending up as an implementation detail of shared code in drivers/fsi and
>>> won't have any external users?
>> One reason is to have a common interface with the new FSI regmap. That way
>> abstracting out the bus transfer is trivial in the new SBEFIFO driver,
>> assuming the SBEFIFO driver should switch to use the FSI regmap.
>> But you are correct, I doubt anyone else will use this. I suppose SBEFIFO
>> may as well not use the regmap and just use some callbacks for whichever bus
>> transfer...
> I'm not saying don't use regmap, I'm saying why not just do this in the
> driver - you can just as easily set the reg_read() and reg_write()
> callbacks in an individual driver without needing to create a new regmap
> bus type for just that one driver to use.
I understand. That sounds like a good approach then, I'll work on that
for v2.
Thanks,
Eddie