Hi Dmitry, On Mon, 2014-10-13 at 16:02 +0200, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 01:32:33PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 09:04:26PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 11:20:58AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote: > > > > > Srini/Mark, any reason why the regmap_field structure is opaque? > > > > So you can't peer into it and rely on the contents. I can see it being > > > useful to add a bulk allocator. > > > And then one have to define offsets in an array and use awkward syntax > > to access individual fields. Can we just reply on reviews/documentation > > for users to not do wrong thing? > > I have very little confidence in users not doing awful things to be > honest, this is the sort of API where the users are just random things > all over the kernel so this sort of thing tends to be found after the > fact. I get a lot of these in drivers that just got thrown over the > wall so nobody really knows what things are doing when you do find them. > > If the standard allocators aren't doing a good job (I've not checked) > I'd much rather handle this inside the API if we can. > Is there something that I can help here or patches are good as they are? :-) Regards, Ivan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
