Re: [PATCH 1/2] regmap: Support half writes and padding betweenregister and value.

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 05:30:01PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 09/09/11 17:14, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Some devices apparently use an entire byte or word with a magic flag in
> > it to distinguish reads and writes.  These end up looking like 16 bit
> > registers with only the lower 8 bits actually used in the current code.

> Ah, fair enough there is a use case.  Can we add this as an additional patch
> when needed?

Yes, of course.  Only consideration is that the current option needs to
be clearly named to avoid colliding with such an addition.
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