Re: [PATCH 1/2] spi: spi-fsl-dspi: replace regmap R/W with internal implementation

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On 05/12/2016 11:31 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 10:58:08AM +0000, Yao Yuan wrote:
> 
>> For example, if DSPI controller register is BE, so I set big-endian in DT.
>> That means we should R/W the DSPI controller register with big-endian.
>> Then I can think all of the value we R/W to/from DSPI controller register, we can
>> Think they are the BE.
>> So that we can understand it easy.
> 
>> That means no matter core is LE or BE, we both need get the value from DSPI register
>> with big endian.
> 
> That's not how regmap is intended to be used, the intention is that the
> driver will interact with native endian values and regmap will hide the
> endianness changes.  You could mask this with some cpu_to_be() and
> be_to_cpu() usage but I'm not sure it's a great idea or what it's buying
> you.

I don't think that's what Yao Yuan meant.  The driver wants the I/O
accessor to return native-endian values, just like any other driver.

-Scott

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