Re: [PATCH 0/5] fsi: Add regmap and refactor sbefifo

From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue Oct 18 2022 - 14:00:29 EST


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.

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