On 06/17/2016 09:04 AM, Crestez Dan Leonard wrote: > 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.
stream might be another option, but pipe is ok in my opinion.
