Re: [PATCH 1/2] mfd: pm8x41: add support for Qualcomm 8x41 PMICs

["Ivan T. Ivanov" <iivanov@mm-sol.com>]

Hi Courtney,

On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 13:30 -0700, Courtney Cavin wrote:

> > > Requiring a specific PMIC listed before a generic one allows us an
> > > escape hatch in the future if for some reason we need to add a quirk for
> > > a specific PMIC.
> > 
> > Is there a conclusion on this issue? I am voting for generic name :-)
> > "qcom,pm-qpnp".
> 
> Josh and I have discussed this offline, and I think we have come to the
> conclusion that this should be a generic driver with only a generic
> binding.  The current proposed name is "spmi-ext", as there is specific
> functional relation to Qualcomm, PMICs or QPNP.
> 
> Further, the binding documentation should be specific to pm8[89]41 as
> 'mfd/pm8x41.txt', and should contain the compatibles:
> 	- "qcom,pm8941", "spmi-ext"
> 	- "qcom,pm8841", "spmi-ext"
> 
> This naming has been discussed to death, so a few more shed color
> suggestions can't possibly hurt.

I am fine with this. Thanks.

> 
> > Further complication is that several sub function drivers expect to
> > runtime detect the exact version of the controller ("qcom, qpnp-iadc",
> > "qcom, qpnp-vadc", "qcom, qpnp-linear-charger").  This is realized by the
> > exported function of the driver "qcom, qpnp-revid". Would it be good
> > idea to merge qpnp-revid and "qcom,pm-qpnp" driver?
> 
> Each block within the PMICs have--undocumented--version registers, so a
> global version number is not particularly useful.  A good example of
> this is the ADC code [1], as you mentioned.

Do you happen to know how to match local subdevices revisions to global 
PMIC revision? Earlier mentioned drivers are using global chip revision. 

I will not be surprised if local subdevice version is not changed, but
instead global version is changed, when only subdevice functionality is 
changed ;-)

Regards,
Ivan