Mark Brown wrote:

On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 02:07:15PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

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On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 09:31:39PM +0100, Nick Dyer wrote:

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It's partly path dependence - it was implemented like this because regmap
wasn't in mainline at the point when I wrote it. Having a dependency on
regmap would now be a API break complicating support of customers using
older kernels than mainline. I would also have to update a bunch of

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This was never a good argument for introducing an interface into the
kernel.

Indeed, and regmap is very easy to backport - it demands little from the
rest of the kernel and most of that is bus specific so you can pretty
much just copy it into an older kernel.

That is good news. It would still be an extra thing to add to the docs, but
not a blocking point.

I am more worried about the address pointer handling and the I2C retries.