Re: [patch 4/4] MFD: Change mfd platform device usage to wrapper platform_device

[ian <spyro@f2s.com>]

On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 15:34 +0200, pHilipp Zabel wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:28 PM, ian <spyro@f2s.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 13:07 +0100, Ben Dooks wrote:

> I agree "power" and "etc." are issues. Clocks should be handled by the
> clock API just fine.

When its merged.

> > they cant just do it themselves because the subdevices may be used on
> > more than one core that does this hanling in different ways (eg. T7L and
> > TC6393XB handle the 32KHz clock completely differently.
> 
> That shouln't matter with generic clocks. If they
> clk_get(&mfd_cell->pdev.dev, "my_clk_input"), that should be
> dispatched to the correct MFD clock regardless of the actual chip.

I agree but its not merged yet.

Until it is, we should stick with the enable / disable methods.

Also, suspend / resume for TC* need careful sequencing of the GPIOs
attached to #PCLR and #SUSPEND (get it wrong and you reset the chip
instead of sleep it)

:-)