From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: lee.jones@linaro.org (Lee Jones)
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:20:39 +0800
Subject: Recommendations for a new MFD device driver?
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On Fri, 06 Feb 2015, Sascha Hauer wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> We are adding support for a new pretty typical MFD device, the MediaTek
> MT6397. Initial patches are already posted. It's a PMIC which among other
> things has regulators and a RTC. The same RTC is reused on another PMIC,
> but with another register offset and another interrupt.
> 
> Now the question is where shall we put the register/irq resource
> information?
> 
> 1) Put it into the RTC device driver.
> 2) Put it into the .resource field of struct mfd_cell
> 3) Put it into the device tree using standard reg, interrupt properties and
>    a) Let the RTC driver interpret these
>    b) Let the MFD driver create resources in the .resource field of struct
>       mfd_cell
>    c) Let the MFD core create the resources

I have no problem with 2, if that's the route you'd like to take.

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Lee Jones
Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead
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