[PATCH v2 1/6] hwmon: (gxp-fan-ctrl) Add GXP fan controller

Hawkins, Nick nick.hawkins at hpe.com
Tue Nov 29 09:13:55 PST 2022


> > +		writeb(val, drvdata->base + channel);

> The mixed use of direct writes and regmap is odd and confusing.
> Why use regmap for plreg_map and for fn2_map but not for base ?
> Can this be unified ? If not, why ?

I will still require three separate areas to access these registers as they
are spaced far apart (> 0x20000000). I will create a comment to
explain this. As for being unified methods I believe they can be
all __iomem's or regmaps.

Thanks,

-Nick Hawkins




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