linux-stable/drivers/base/regmap
Srinivas Kandagatla 6725228787 regmap: Add regmap_field APIs
It is common to access regmap registers at bit level, using
regmap_update_bits or regmap_read functions, however the end user has to
take care of a mask or shifting. This becomes overhead when such use
cases are high. Having a common function to do this is much convenient
and less error prone.

The idea of regmap_field is simple, regmap_field gives a logical
structure to bits of the regmap register, and the driver can use this
logical entity without the knowledge of the bit positions and masks all
over the code. This way code looks much neat and it need not handle the
masks, shifts every time it access the those entities.

With this new regmap_field_read/write apis the end user can setup a
regmap field using regmap_field_init and use the return regmap_field to
read write the register field without worrying about the masks or
shifts.

Also this apis will be useful for drivers which are based on regmaps,
like some clocks or pinctrls which can work on the regmap_fields
directly without having to worry about bit positions.

Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
2013-06-12 16:27:44 +01:00
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internal.h regmap: Add regmap_field APIs 2013-06-12 16:27:44 +01:00
Kconfig regmap: select REGMAP if REGMAP_MMIO and REGMAP_IRQ enabled 2012-10-17 22:09:35 +09:00
Makefile regmap: flat: Add flat cache type 2013-01-02 10:58:53 +00:00
regcache-flat.c regmap: flat: Add flat cache type 2013-01-02 10:58:53 +00:00
regcache-lzo.c regmap: cache: Pass the map rather than the word size when updating values 2013-03-04 10:30:27 +08:00
regcache-rbtree.c Linux 3.9-rc7 2013-04-16 16:02:41 +01:00
regcache.c regmap: cache: Fix format specifier in dev_dbg 2013-04-05 11:28:12 +01:00
regmap-debugfs.c regmap: debugfs: Add a registers `range' file 2013-03-04 10:33:03 +08:00
regmap-i2c.c i2c: Split I2C_M_NOSTART support out of I2C_FUNC_PROTOCOL_MANGLING 2012-05-30 10:55:34 +02:00
regmap-irq.c regmap: irq: Clarify error message when we fail to request primary IRQ 2013-03-19 10:50:56 +00:00
regmap-mmio.c regmap: mmio: add register clock support 2013-02-14 16:40:28 +00:00
regmap-spi.c regmap: spi: Handle allocation failures gracefully 2013-02-05 14:14:32 +00:00
regmap.c regmap: Add regmap_field APIs 2013-06-12 16:27:44 +01:00