Commit 858e6744 authored by Mark Brown's avatar Mark Brown Committed by Samuel Ortiz

mfd: Add some documentation for WM8350 register lock

Hopefully this will make the purpose of these functions a bit clearer,
it's not immediately obvious that the lock is a hardware feature.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSamuel Ortiz <sameo@openedhand.com>
parent 2c521227
......@@ -299,6 +299,13 @@ int wm8350_block_write(struct wm8350 *wm8350, int start_reg, int regs,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wm8350_block_write);
/**
* wm8350_reg_lock()
*
* The WM8350 has a hardware lock which can be used to prevent writes to
* some registers (generally those which can cause particularly serious
* problems if misused). This function enables that lock.
*/
int wm8350_reg_lock(struct wm8350 *wm8350)
{
u16 key = WM8350_LOCK_KEY;
......@@ -314,6 +321,15 @@ int wm8350_reg_lock(struct wm8350 *wm8350)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wm8350_reg_lock);
/**
* wm8350_reg_unlock()
*
* The WM8350 has a hardware lock which can be used to prevent writes to
* some registers (generally those which can cause particularly serious
* problems if misused). This function disables that lock so updates
* can be performed. For maximum safety this should be done only when
* required.
*/
int wm8350_reg_unlock(struct wm8350 *wm8350)
{
u16 key = WM8350_UNLOCK_KEY;
......
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