Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] regmap: Reject fast_io regmap configurations with RBTREE and MAPLE caches

[Guenter Roeck]

On 7/21/23 08:13, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 08:07:28AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On 7/21/23 08:03, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > Actually Guenter and Dan have made the required updates to support this
> > > so the warning will be gone soon (hopefully Dan will send his patch
> > > properly shortly).
>
> > Do you plan to revert this patch ? If not regmap_init() would still fail
> > for the affected drivers, even after my and Dan's patches have been applied.
>
> Yeah.  You *can* use the dynamically allocating caches safely if you
> ensure that no new cache nodes are allocated during I/O.  I'd not
> realised people were actually doing this.

Ok.

Dan, let me know if you don't have time to send a proper patch.
I have one based on your suggestion prepared that I could send out
if needed.

Thanks,
Guenter