Re: [PATCH 2/3] regulator: qcom_spmi: Add support for PM8005

[Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>]

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On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 08:16:38AM -0600, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
> On 5/22/2019 5:01 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 05:16:06PM -0600, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:

> > > I'm open to suggestions.  Apparently there are two register common register
> > > schemes - the old one and the new one.  PMIC designs after some random point
> > > in time are all the new register scheme per the documentation I see.

> > > As far as I an aware, the FT426 design is the first design to be added to
> > > this driver to make use of the new scheme, but I expect more to be supported
> > > in future, thus I'm reluctant to make these ft426 specific in the name.

> > If there's a completely new register map why are these even in the same
> > driver?

> Its not completely new, its a derivative of the old scheme.  Of the 104
> registers, approximately 5 have been modified, therefore the new scheme is
> 95% compatible with the old one.  Duplicating a 1883 line driver to handle a
> change in 5% of the register space seems less than ideal. Particularly
> considering your previous comments seem to indicate that you feel its pretty
> trivial to handle the quirks associated with the changes in this driver.

Ah, so it's not a completely new scheme but rather just a couple of
registers that have changed.  Sharing the driver is fine then.  Ideally
there would be some documentation from the vendor about this, a mention
of IP revisions or some such.  If not what the DT bindings do for names
is use the first chip things were found in.

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