Re: [RFC] regmap: Add regmap_pipe_read API

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Leonard,

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Crestez Dan Leonard
<leonard.crestez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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 with pipe rather than
> range semantics.

Please settle on either "fifo" or "pipe", instead of mixing both.
Personally, I prefer the former.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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