Re: [PATCH v2 07/10] regulator: Add driver for Maxim 77802 PMIC regulators

[Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk>]

Hello Lee,

Thanks a lot for your feedback.

On 06/17/2014 11:17 PM, Lee Jones wrote:
>> The MAX77802 PMIC has 10 high-efficiency Buck and 32 Low-dropout
>> (LDO) regulators. This patch adds support for all these regulators
>> found on the MAX77802 PMIC and is based on a driver added by Simon
>> Glass to the Chrome OS kernel 3.8 tree.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk>
>> ---
>> 
>> Changes since v1:
>>  - Remove unneeded check if num_regulators != MAX77802_MAX_REGULATORS.
>>  - Fix .set_suspend_mode handler comment and split regulators ops for
>>    regulators that behave differently. Suggested by Mark Brown.
>>  - Use module_platform_driver() instead of having init/exit functions.
>>    Suggested by Mark Brown.
>>  - Use the new descriptor-based GPIO interface instead of the deprecated
>>    integer based GPIO one. Suggested by Mark Brown.
>>  - Look for "regulators" child node instead of "voltage-regulators" to be
>>    consistent with other PMIC drivers. Suggested by Mark Brown.
>> 
>>  drivers/mfd/max77802.c       |   1 +
> 
> Can you remove all of the MFD changes from patches 7, 8 and 9 and
> create new one.  That way there's no requirement for any cross
> subsystem messiness.
> 

Sure, Mark already suggested the same and I'll do it on the next version.

But there still be some cross-subsystem dependency/messiness since the
regulator, clk and rtc drivers include the mfd max77802 headers that are added
in Patch 6.

So I guess you should either a) take the whole patch-set through your mfd tree
or b) merge the mfd patches and create an immutable branch that can be pulled by
Mark, Mike and Alessandro.

I don't know what's the preferred workflow in these cases...

>>  drivers/regulator/Kconfig    |   9 +
>>  drivers/regulator/Makefile   |   1 +
>>  drivers/regulator/max77802.c | 701 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  4 files changed, 712 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/regulator/max77802.c
> 

Best regards,
Javier