On 17/06/16 09:05, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: > On 06/17/2016 09:04 AM, Crestez Dan Leonard wrote: >> On 06/16/2016 06:43 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >>> Hi Leonard, >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Crestez Dan Leonard >>> <leonard.crestez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> The regmap API usually assumes that bulk read operations will read a >>>> range of registers but some I2C/SPI devices have certain registers for >>>> which a such a read operation will return data from an internal FIFO >>>> instead. Add an explicit API to support bulk read with pipe rather than >>>> range semantics. >>> >>> Please settle on either "fifo" or "pipe", instead of mixing both. >>> Personally, I prefer the former. >> >> Well, it doesn't have to be a fifo. The device can return data from some >> other kind of buffer (maybe a stack). I can adjust the documentation to >> clarify. >> >> I considered naming it something like regmap_multi_read_one_reg or >> something but regmap_pipe_read sounds reasonable and short. > > stream might be another option, but pipe is ok in my opinion. > I'm not fussy on naming, but definitely support having the functionality! Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
