Re: [PATCH v4 00/38] platform/x86: Rework intel_scu_ipc and intel_pmc_ipc drivers

[Mika Westerberg]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 04:45:15PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 06:33:12PM +0200, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> 
> > Sorry about that. I included you because there was suggestion from Lee
> > to convert the MFD driver in patch 37 to use regmap but the registers
> > are all 64-bit and it was not clear whether regmap supports that:
> 
> >   https://www.spinics.net/lists/platform-driver-x86/msg20652.html
> 
> > Looking at the regmap API it seems to deal mostly with "unsigned int"
> > which does not work well with the 64-bit MMIO registers but I may be
> > missing something.
> 
> It should work fine on architectures with 64 bit ints but otherwise it's
> not supported (and doing so would hurt the API pretty badly so I'm not
> sure it would make sense but patches welcome).

OK, thanks for the clarification. I guess in this case we can probably
just live without using it, if that's fine for Lee and others. The new
MFD driver itself is ~500 lines so not sure how much regmap would help
there, and we only expose two simple functions for the subdevices both
dealing with 64-bit registers.