next-20160225 build: 2 failures 44 warnings (next-20160225)

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Feb 27 06:40:28 PST 2016


Mark,

On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 21:12:20 +0900, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Another solution would be to provide an implementation of
> > atomic_io_modify() on arm64, though that would need the ACK from the
> > ARM64 maintainers.
> 
> It also sounds like a more modern solution might be to use syscon for
> the shared register, but perhaps I'm missing something about how the IP
> is set up so ICBW.

I think back when we implemented this, syscon/simple-mfd was
not available or widely used - I don't really remember. We could indeed
try to switch to a syscon based solution.

Thanks,

Thomas
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