Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] hwmon: (gxp-fan-ctrl) Add GXP fan controller

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Tue Nov 29 2022 - 13:26:45 EST


On 11/29/22 09:13, Hawkins, Nick wrote:
+ writeb(val, drvdata->base + channel);

The mixed use of direct writes and regmap is odd and confusing.
Why use regmap for plreg_map and for fn2_map but not for base ?
Can this be unified ? If not, why ?

I will still require three separate areas to access these registers as they
are spaced far apart (> 0x20000000). I will create a comment to
explain this. As for being unified methods I believe they can be
all __iomem's or regmaps.


I understand that there are three regions. What I don't understand is
that two of them are accessed through regmap and one directly. Either
access all regions using regmap, or all regions using iomem accessors
directly. If regmap does not support access to the base region,
don't use regmap at all, explain why regmap doesn't support this kind
of access, and make sure to copy the regmap maintainer.

Thanks,
Guenter