On Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 09:23:41AM +0200, Álvaro Fernández Rojas wrote: > > > > Add a comment describing what you are protecting here. It looks so far > > like you could just use regmap and drop the mutex, but I didn't check > > thoroughly. > > The EMC2101 datasheet is explicit about the Look Up Table registers > (REG_FAN_LUT_TEMP and REG_FAN_LUT_SPEED) being RO if FAN_LUT_DISABLE > isn't set, so I believe that we need the mutex even if we switch to > regmap. > I will add an explanation with that in the next version. > Should I still switch the implementation to regmap considering that we > need a mutex? > What does r/w vs. r/o register access have to do with locking ? Guenter
