Re: [RFC 2/7] regmap: check for alignment on translated register addresses

On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 11:45:46AM +0200, Maxime Chevallier wrote:

Mark Brown [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

It is not at all clear to me that the combination of stride and
downshift particularly makes sense, and especially not that the
stride should be applied after downshifting rather than to what
the user is passing in.

I agree on the part where the ordering of "adding and offset, then
down/upshifting" isn't natural. This is the order in which operations
are done today, and from what I could gather, only the ocelot-spi MFD
driver uses both of these operations.

Right.  I don't think the ordering is particularly intentional,
like I say it's not clear that combinding the two makes sense so
I think it just wasn't considered at all.