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Normally the driver accesses both the RX and the TX port registers via a paging mechanism: one register is used to select the page (i.e. the port), which dictates the port used when accessing the port specific registers. The downside to this is that while debugging it's almost impossible to access the port specific registers from the userspace, as the driver can change the page at any moment. The hardware supports another access mechanism: using the I2C_RX_ID registers (one for each RX port), i2c addresses can be chosen which, when accessed, will always use the specific port's registers, skipping the paging mechanism. The support is only for the RX port, but it has proven very handy while debugging and testing. So let's add the code for this, but hide it behind a disabled define. Reviewed-by: Jai Luthra <jai.luthra@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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