From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com (Mark Brown) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 14:24:47 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] mfd: Fix runtime warning caused by duplicate device registration In-Reply-To: <4FF2EEA1.6080204@linaro.org> References: <1341316788-12730-1-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> <20120703123552.GC25995@sirena.org.uk> <4FF2EEA1.6080204@linaro.org> Message-ID: <20120703132447.GN29030@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 02:07:45PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: > On 03/07/12 13:35, Mark Brown wrote: > >Do we really want to create MFD cells like this (which are really Linux > >internal things and might vary if another OS or another version of Linux > >changes its internal abstractions) from the device tree? > We're not creating them. We're merely using current infrastructure. *Very* recently added infrastructure which caused you to notice this... > Before, when we probed each device from Device Tree we came up > against some fairly major limitations of the Device Tree. As a > result, Arnd and I agreed that this was the way to go. I'm really unconvinced that instnatiating the MFD cells from device tree is in general a good idea. > See c5395e7ed8f16cc7bb72a783de68659db5aed515 for a short description > of the troubles we faced. $ git show c5395e7ed8f16cc7bb72a783de68659db5aed515 fatal: bad object c5395e7ed8f16cc7bb72a783de68659db5aed515 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: