From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: peter@korsgaard.com (Peter Korsgaard) Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 08:27:45 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] regulator: act8945a: add regulator driver for ACT8945A In-Reply-To: (Wenyou Yang's message of "Thu, 14 Jan 2016 01:23:39 +0000") References: <1452586629-1117-1-git-send-email-wenyou.yang@atmel.com> <1452586629-1117-2-git-send-email-wenyou.yang@atmel.com> <87oacp5zl7.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <87egdk39ji.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org >>>>> "Yang," == Yang, Wenyou writes: >> Isn't the regulator part of the act8945a identical to act8865? Can't we just use the >> existing act8865-regulator.c driver? (E.G. support 8865 variant in the mfd driver, >> but only register the regulator sub device?) > Yes, the regulator part of the act8945a is identical to act8865. > But the act8865-regulator driver is a struct i2c_driver, and the mfd > sub-device driver is a platform_driver driver, it is not easy to use > it. But the mfd driver could support the act8865 variant as well (by only registering the regulator mfd cell). -- Venlig hilsen, Peter Korsgaard