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From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To: "Yang, Wenyou" <Wenyou.Yang@atmel.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>,
	"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Ferre, Nicolas" <Nicolas.FERRE@atmel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@dowhile0.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] regulator: act8945a: add regulator driver for ACT8945A
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 06:19:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160114061936.GM27358@x1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B256D81BAE5131468A838E5D7A243641D63EBC6E@penmbx01>

On Thu, 14 Jan 2016, Yang, Wenyou wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Korsgaard [mailto:jacmet@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Peter Korsgaard
> > Sent: 2016年1月13日 22:22
> > To: Yang, Wenyou <Wenyou.Yang@atmel.com>
> > Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>; Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>;
> > Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>; Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>; Mark
> > Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>; Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>;
> > Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>; Krzysztof Kozlowski
> > <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>; devicetree@vger.kernel.org; Ferre, Nicolas
> > <Nicolas.FERRE@atmel.com>; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Javier Martinez
> > Canillas <javier@dowhile0.org>; Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>; linux-arm-
> > kernel@lists.infradead.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] regulator: act8945a: add regulator driver for
> > ACT8945A
> > 
> > >>>>> "Wenyou" == Wenyou Yang <wenyou.yang@atmel.com> writes:
> > 
> >  > This patch adds new regulator driver to support ACT8945A MFD  > chip's
> > regulators.
> > 
> >  > The ACT8945A has three step-down DC/DC converters and four  > low-dropout
> > regulators.
> > 
> >  > Signed-off-by: Wenyou Yang <wenyou.yang@atmel.com>
> > 
> > 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.

Take a look at some existing files with the pattern
drivers/mfd/*{spi,i2c,core}.c to see how this might be possible.

-- 
Lee Jones
Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead
Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-14  6:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-12  8:17 [PATCH v2 0/2] regulator: act8945a: add regulator driver for the sub-device of ACT8945A MFD Wenyou Yang
     [not found] ` <1452586629-1117-1-git-send-email-wenyou.yang-AIFe0yeh4nAAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-12  8:17   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] regulator: act8945a: add regulator driver for ACT8945A Wenyou Yang
2016-01-13 14:22     ` Peter Korsgaard
     [not found]       ` <87oacp5zl7.fsf-D6SC8u56vOOJDPpyT6T3/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-14  1:23         ` Yang, Wenyou
2016-01-14  6:19           ` Lee Jones [this message]
2016-01-14  7:27           ` Peter Korsgaard
     [not found]             ` <87egdk39ji.fsf-D6SC8u56vOOJDPpyT6T3/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-14  8:07               ` Yang, Wenyou
2016-01-14 11:43                 ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-01-14 12:46                   ` Yang, Wenyou
     [not found]                   ` <87a8o82xq3.fsf-D6SC8u56vOOJDPpyT6T3/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-20  7:37                     ` Yang, Wenyou
2016-01-20  7:41                       ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-01-12  8:17 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] regulator: add documentation for ACT8945A's regulator DT bindings Wenyou Yang

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