Re: [PATCH V2 5/5] gpio/gpio-stmpe: ADD support for stmpe variant801

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Mon Nov 21 2011 - 22:49:58 EST


On 11/21/2011 8:21 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
>> > I assumed stmpe_set_bits will only affect bits which are 1
>> > in mask and i was wrong. :(
> That does look like a straight bug in stmpe_set_bits() which ought to be
> fixed regardless of anything else.
>

I think so. I will fix it in a separate patch.

>>> > > (2) for other devices, adds an an unnecessary read (within stmpe_set_bits()),
>>> > > which wasn't there before.
>> > Correct.
>>> > > Please rework to something like:
> Looking at the code in stmpe.c it might be as well to convert to regmap
> which would if nothing else save a bunch of custom code in the driver
> and let you use the cache code to eliminate the read. Probably that
> will help eliminate reads in other places too.

Ya, i already got this feedback from Rabin. I am a bit busy right now and so
requested sameo to accept this patchset as it is. I will update drivers to use
regmap as soon as i get some time.

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viresh
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