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From: Dong Aisheng <b29396-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Zhao Richard-B20223
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	Mike Turquette <mturquette-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] pinctrl: pinctrl-imx: add support for set bits for general purpose registers
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:04:12 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120717030411.GG19699@shlinux2.ap.freescale.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201207161340.18528.arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org>

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 09:40:17PM +0800, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 16 July 2012, Richard Zhao wrote:
> > > If you really wants a "funnel driver" doing all these diverse things,
> > > I'd put it in drivers/mfd.
> >
> > It's like driver drivers/mfd/anatop-mfd.c. They both store misc bits.
> > We may need a generic driver to simply provide register accessor.
> 
> We already have the "regmap" framework that deals with sets of registers
> on spi, i2c or memory mapped buses. One thing I've thought about
Thanks for the hints.
Will look into it.

> before is to create some kind of very simple "system controller"
> framework based on regmap that lets you register a single global
> "struct regmap" pointer from an SoC specific driver, and have drivers
> call a function into that framework to get a reference to that
> regmap.
> 
That would be a good idea to make people easy use.

Regards
Dong Aisheng

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-17  3:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-12  9:07 [PATCH v2 1/2] pinctrl: pinctrl-imx: add support for set bits for general purpose registers Dong Aisheng
     [not found] ` <1342084080-3145-1-git-send-email-b29396-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-12  9:08   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] pinctrl: pinctrl-imx6q: add missed mux function for USBOTG_ID Dong Aisheng
2012-07-12  9:31   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] pinctrl: pinctrl-imx: add support for set bits for general purpose registers Richard Zhao
2012-07-14 20:43   ` Linus Walleij
     [not found]     ` <CACRpkdbHtgKLA3JJxc4VY35zSpJFvk15u62Z3aBCqERoeQ10CA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-16  8:17       ` Richard Zhao
     [not found]         ` <20120716081703.GH21635-iWYTGMXpHj9ITqJhDdzsOjpauB2SiJktrE5yTffgRl4@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-16 13:40           ` Arnd Bergmann
     [not found]             ` <201207161340.18528.arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-16 22:15               ` Linus Walleij
2012-07-17  3:04               ` Dong Aisheng [this message]
2012-07-17  3:02       ` Dong Aisheng
     [not found]         ` <20120717030225.GF19699-Fb7DQEYuewWctlrPMvKcciBecyulp+rMXqFh9Ls21Oc@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-17 18:15           ` Linus Walleij
     [not found]             ` <CACRpkdZei=U67wHQW6rKGkv0X10t4k+BEYE8uFZPbp-6Y60deQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-17 18:24               ` Mark Brown
2012-07-12  9:48 ` Hui Wang
     [not found]   ` <4FFE9D7E.1080302-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2012-07-12 10:24     ` Richard Zhao
2012-07-12 11:04     ` Dong Aisheng

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