On 06/16/2016 06:43 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Leonard, > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Crestez Dan Leonard > <leonard.cres...@intel.com> wrote: >> The regmap API usually assumes that bulk read operations will read a >> range of registers but some I2C/SPI devices have certain registers for >> which a such a read operation will return data from an internal FIFO >> instead. Add an explicit API to support bulk read with pipe rather than >> range semantics. > > Please settle on either "fifo" or "pipe", instead of mixing both. > Personally, I prefer the former.
Well, it doesn't have to be a fifo. The device can return data from some other kind of buffer (maybe a stack). I can adjust the documentation to clarify. I considered naming it something like regmap_multi_read_one_reg or something but regmap_pipe_read sounds reasonable and short.
