Re: [PATCH v4] pinctrl: qcom: sc8180x: add ACPI probe support

[Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>]

On Wed 10 Mar 06:09 CST 2021, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 07:12:10PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > It adds ACPI probe support for pinctrl-sc8180x driver.  We have one
> > problem with ACPI table, i.e. GIO0 (TLMM) block has one single memory
> > resource to cover 3 tiles defined by SC8180X.  To follow the hardware
> > layout of 3 tiles which is already supported DT probe, it adds one
> > function to replace the original single memory resource with 3 named
> > ones for tiles.  With that, We can map memory for ACPI in the same way
> > as DT.
> 
> You are reinventing a wheel, i.e. MFD framework. Can you simple utilize
> devm_mfd_add_devices()?
> 

But wouldn't such driver need to do exactly this, and then set up the
mfd cell and register it? So the new wheel would still be there, just
wrapped in more code?

> Basically you may write an new pure MFD driver (drivers/mfd) that will
> instantiate properly the pin control driver.
> 

In contrast to typical MFDs this would still be a single mfd_cell, just
with different set of resources, derived from the mfd device itself.

Regards,
Bjorn