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John Madieu
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John Madieu is an embedded Linux and kernel engineer living in Paris, France. His main activities consist of developing device drivers and Board Support Packages (BSPs) for companies in domains such as IoT, automation, transport, healthcare, energy, and the military. John is the founder and chief consultant at LABCSMART, a company that provides training and services for embedded Linux and Linux kernel engineering. He is an open source and embedded systems enthusiast, convinced that it is only by sharing knowledge that we can learn more. He is passionate about boxing, which he practiced for 6 years professionally, and continues to channel this passion through training sessions that he provides voluntarily.
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Regmap-based SPI driver example – putting it all together

All the steps involved in setting up Regmap, from configuration to device register access, can be enumerated as follows:

  • Setting up a struct regmap_config object according to the device characteristics. Defining the register range if needed, default values if any, cache_type if needed, and so on. If custom read/write functions are needed, pass them to the reg_read/reg_write fields.
  • In the probe function, allocating a register map using devm_regmap_init_i2c(), devm_regmap_init_spi(), or devm_regmap_init_mmio() depending on the connection with the underlying device – I2C, SPI, or memory-mapped.
  • Whenever you need to read/write from/into registers, calling remap_[read|write] functions.
  • When done with the register map, assuming you used resource-managed APIs, you have nothing else to do as devres core will take care of releasing the Regmap resources; otherwise, you'll have to call regmap_exit...
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John Madieu

John Madieu is an embedded Linux and kernel engineer living in Paris, France. His main activities consist of developing device drivers and Board Support Packages (BSPs) for companies in domains such as IoT, automation, transport, healthcare, energy, and the military. John is the founder and chief consultant at LABCSMART, a company that provides training and services for embedded Linux and Linux kernel engineering. He is an open source and embedded systems enthusiast, convinced that it is only by sharing knowledge that we can learn more. He is passionate about boxing, which he practiced for 6 years professionally, and continues to channel this passion through training sessions that he provides voluntarily.
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