[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] misc:max8998 Support for MAX8998 PMIC driver

[Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>]

On 09/12/2011 03:18 PM, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
> 
> Thanks for your reply.

Hi Lucasz,

>> Maybe getting rid of special manufacturer names as fsl_pmic,
>> max_pmic... and using a general access for this kind of chips ? From
>> code your patch is not very distant from what we currently have. Any
>> opinion about this ?
> 
> Yes, you are right. I've looked to the fsl_pmic driver when I was
> preparing patch for MAX8998. 

I have supposed...

> 
> As you have written, dealing with those two PMICs boils down to
> reading/writing their internal registers via I2C by i2c.h API.
> 
> We can think of a common PMIC framework, which is consisting of methods
> for reading/writing internal registers, enabling outputs of those
> devices.

Exactly !

> 
> PMIC specific data (like register map, I2C addresses) can be stored in
> *.h files. 

Yes, this is what I meant ;-)

> 
> I can prepare some common framework and post proposition on the
> mailing list. On the beginning I'll focus on MAX8998 and FSL. 

Agree.

Best regards,
Stefano Babic

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