Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] power: ds2760_battery: add device tree glue

[Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>]

On Thursday, June 28, 2018 01:52 PM, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 09:55:40AM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote:
>> The w1 slave device used by this driver now has a of_node in case it
>> was matched against a devicetree sub-node of the bus master. This can
>> now be passed down to the power supply core which will parse more
>> properties from the node, such as 'power-supplies'.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>
>> ---
> 
> Thanks for the patch series. Having proper DT support is a nice
> addition. But instead of extending the platform device hack, please
> merge the w1 driver into ds2760_battery.c as it happened to the
> bq27000 driver already. The intermediate platform device is completly
> useless and only makes things more complicated.
> 
> Basically move all code from w1_ds2760.c into ds2760_battery.c,
> drop some EXPORT_SYMBOL and make functions static instead. Then
> move content from probe/remove function into add_slave/remove_slave
> callbacks and drop all platform device things.

Okay, yes, that makes sense. I never understood why there are multiple 
drivers for this.


Thanks,
Daniel