On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Richard Fitzgerald > <rf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> This patch adds a header file of register definitions for Cirrus >> Logic "Madera" class codecs. These codecs are all based off a common >> set of hardware IP so have a common register map (with a few minor >> device-to-device variations). These are complex devices with a large >> mber of features and so have a correspondingly large register set. >> The registers.h file has been auto-generated from the hardware register >> definitions, stripped down to only registers we need to access from >> the driver. >> >> Signed-off-by: Richard Fitzgerald <rf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > This: > include/linux/mfd/madera/registers.h | 8832 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Get included in all subdrivers I suppose? > > So you are broadcasting 8800+ lines into every subdriver across the > entire kernel. > > Just the time spent in the preprocessor parsing this will affect compilation > time. Or maybe this is a necessary sacrifice to get the regmap cache centralized in MFD. I don't know. I feel stupid. I guess I should focus on "my" subsystems... Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html