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From: Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@gmail.com>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>,
	"lee.jones@linaro.org" <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
	"rob.herring@calxeda.com" <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
	Pawel Moll <Pawel.Moll@arm.com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
	Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
	"grant.likely@linaro.org" <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
	Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>,
	Jonghwa Lee <jonghwa3.lee@samsung.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] max77693: added device tree support
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 22:36:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2068495.b8bxEK36PI@flatron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130823141433.GI25856@e106331-lin.cambridge.arm.com>

Hi Mark,

On Friday 23 of August 2013 15:14:33 Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 05:53:34PM +0100, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
> > This patch adds only of_match_table.
> > There are no device specific properties.
> 
> Could you clarify what functionality this enables and what it doesn't,
> please?

This patch simply adds explicit OF match table for this device. Before, 
the driver could be matched only by a fallback to i2c_device_id table.

> This doesn't seem to enable support for the regulators described in the
> binding [1] (which from the looks of it needs proof-reading and possibly
> rework).
> 
> Are there any changes we might need in future to either support new
> functionality or to generalise the binding. e.g. do we need a regulator
> for the LED?
> 
> Given the binding has never been supported, are we happy now that it
> best represents the hardware, or are there avenues of improvement
> *before* it becomes ABI?

Well, documentation of the binding has been present in kernel tree since 
June, but I too think that we should review it and make sure it makes 
sense. I'll try to get some information on this chip at work, on Monday.

Best regards,
Tomasz


  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-23 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-21 16:53 [PATCH v3 0/2] max77693: added device tree support Andrzej Hajda
2013-08-21 16:53 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] max77693: remove device wakeup from driver Andrzej Hajda
2013-09-26 12:00   ` Andrzej Hajda
     [not found]   ` <1377104014-21910-2-git-send-email-a.hajda-Sze3O3UU22JBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-27  7:29     ` Lee Jones
2013-08-21 16:53 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] max77693: added device tree support Andrzej Hajda
2013-08-23 14:14   ` Mark Rutland
2013-08-23 20:36     ` Tomasz Figa [this message]
2013-08-23 20:08   ` Tomasz Figa
2013-09-06 10:50     ` Mark Brown
2013-09-26 12:05   ` Andrzej Hajda
     [not found]   ` <1377104014-21910-3-git-send-email-a.hajda-Sze3O3UU22JBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-27  7:17     ` Lee Jones
2013-09-27  7:27       ` [PATCH v4 " Andrzej Hajda
     [not found]         ` <1380266866-32103-1-git-send-email-a.hajda-Sze3O3UU22JBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-27  8:11           ` Lee Jones

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