[PATCH 1/4] mfd: mc13783: Take care of semantic inversion between read and write value of two bits in POWER_MISCELLANEUS register.

Mark Brown broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Sat Dec 12 13:11:43 EST 2009


On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 05:48:43PM +0100, Alberto Panizzo wrote:
> MC13783_REGCTRL_PWGTnSPIEN controls the states of the corresponding
> PWGTn_DRV output.
> Reading 1 on the corresponding bit mean that the output is enabled
> Writing 1 on the corresponding bit disable that output!

> So, if not asked directly to modify those bits, write the inverted
> value.

Some comments in the code explaining what's going on wouild help a lot -
it's not going to be obvious to a reader why the code is doing this and
may well confuse them.



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