Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751981AbaBBQXQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Feb 2014 11:23:16 -0500 Received: from gw-1.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.217]:55270 "EHLO pandora.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751751AbaBBQXO (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Feb 2014 11:23:14 -0500 Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 16:23:09 +0000 From: Russell King - ARM Linux To: Jean-Francois Moine Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Dave Airlie , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rob Clark Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 09/23] drm/i2c: tda998x: don't read write-only registers Message-ID: <20140202162309.GF26684@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <5269e596e16dfe40253dce38ceb0dc4a617384c1.1390986083.git.moinejf@free.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5269e596e16dfe40253dce38ceb0dc4a617384c1.1390986083.git.moinejf@free.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 06:14:42PM +0100, Jean-Francois Moine wrote: > This patch takes care of the write-only registers of the tda998x. > > The registers SOFTRESET, TBG_CNTRL_0 and TBG_CNTRL_1 have all bits > cleared after reset, so, they may be fully re-written. > > The register MAT_CONTRL is set to > MAT_CONTRL_MAT_BP | MAT_CONTRL_MAT_SC(1) > after reset, so, it may be fully set again to this value. I said in v3 of this patch, which seems to remain unaddressed: > /* must be last register set: */ > - reg_clear(priv, REG_TBG_CNTRL_0, TBG_CNTRL_0_SYNC_ONCE); > + reg_write(priv, REG_TBG_CNTRL_0, 0); Register changes which have a potential effect shouldn't be part of a patch which is really only trying to avoid reading from write only registers. This could be a potential functional change - and it's probably one which Rob Clark should at least be made aware of. As I commented last time, when you're changing register values in an otherwise innocuous patch, you should comment about them in the patch description. -- FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: 5.8Mbps down 500kbps up. Estimation in database were 13.1 to 19Mbit for a good line, about 7.5+ for a bad. Estimate before purchase was "up to 13.2Mbit". -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/