From: broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com (Mark Brown)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: platform data and mfd design question
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:53:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110216165348.GB4390@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D5B8F61.3090105@stericsson.com>
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:48:33AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On 02/15/2011 10:51 PM, Abhijeet Dharmapurikar wrote:
> >Msm on the other hand declares the struct mfd_cell subdevice[] array in
> >the board file and passes this on to the core driver via platfom data.
> This way the platform data tells the core driver what kind of
> silicon it has "hey, PM8058, guess what, you have an RTC!"
> which looks backwards to me, especially given that it does
> not need any fancy platform data at all, just two IRQ numbers
> which the core driver can very well handle.
Indeed, and the RTC would still be useful even without IRQ support I
imagine (it should still be able to tell you the time).
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-16 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-15 21:51 platform data and mfd design question Abhijeet Dharmapurikar
2011-02-16 2:19 ` Mark Brown
2011-02-16 8:48 ` Linus Walleij
2011-02-16 16:53 ` Mark Brown [this message]
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