Re: [PATCH] regmap: Add debugfs file for forcing field writes

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 12:24:28PM +0200, Waqar Hameed wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 16:00 +0100 Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > If we're going to do something like this which could interfere with
> > driver operation then it should be guarded like the write support is so
> > that people using it have to modify the kernel to get the feature, or at
> > the very least taint the kernel.  This is less invasive but still might
> > cause issues if someone is relying on read/modify/write behaviour.

> I understand your point. Should we introduce a new macro like
> `REGMAP_ALLOW_WRITE_DEBUGFS` (which requires direct code modification to
> enable it) to guard this or introduce a new kernel configuration?

I'd add a macro.

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