Re: [PATCH 1/2] iio: adc: stx104: Implement and utilize register structures

From: Mark Brown
Date: Thu Jun 16 2022 - 09:27:41 EST


On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 02:43:27PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 2:19 PM William Breathitt Gray
> > On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 02:00:26PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

> > > I just realized that this driver is for the old PC104 (like?) hardware
> > > that most likely uses IO ports, I don't remember if we have support
> > > for IO ports in regmap (MMIO -- yes for sure).

> > Hmm, I don't see IO ports mentioned in include/linux/regmap.h, so I
> > don't think the regmap API directly supports it (maybe someone familiar
> > with regmap knows). Although we do get a virtual mapping cookie via
> > ioport_map() in this driver, I don't know if we can pass that to the
> > regmap functions and have it actually work.

> The problem is with accessors which are inconsistent in regmap MMIO
> implementation. I think it should be converted to use
> ioreadXX()/iowriteXX() in all cases (currently only BE cases use
> them). Another variant is to provide read*_be() / write*_be() for all
> architectures, replace corresponding ops in regmap MMIO and introduce
> regmap IO with inX()/outX. The former seems to me the best option,
> while the latter is cleaner.

I don't know what driver this is, but yes someone would have to add
ioport support to use them with regmap.

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