Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755632AbdDGIaS (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2017 04:30:18 -0400 Received: from mail-it0-f47.google.com ([209.85.214.47]:38465 "EHLO mail-it0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755471AbdDGIaN (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2017 04:30:13 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1491386884-30689-1-git-send-email-rf@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <1491386884-30689-2-git-send-email-rf@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> From: Linus Walleij Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 10:30:12 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/16] mfd: madera: Add register definitions for Cirrus Logic Madera codecs To: Richard Fitzgerald Cc: Alexandre Courbot , Rob Herring , Thomas Gleixner , Jason Cooper , Lee Jones , Mark Brown , "alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" , "open list:WOLFSON MICROELECTRONICS DRIVERS" , "linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org" , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1262 Lines: 33 On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Richard Fitzgerald > 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 > > 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