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 without range semantics.
Some linux drivers use regmap_bulk_read or regmap_raw_read for such
registers, for example mpu6050 or bmi150 from IIO. This only happens to
work because when caching is disabled a single regmap read op will map
to a single bus read op (as desired). This breaks if caching is enabled and
reg+1 happens to be a cacheable register.
Without regmap support refactoring a driver to enable regmap caching
requires separate I2C and SPI paths. This is exactly what regmap is
supposed to help avoid.
Suggested-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Crestez Dan Leonard <leonard.crestez@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Popa <stefan.popa@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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