Re: [PATCH] Core driver for WM97xx touchscreens

Dmitry
2008-01-19T22:18:53Z

Hi,

2008/1/20, Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>:
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 10:48:32PM +0300, Dmitry wrote:
>
> > Well... It's a common suggestion not to duplicate code. The wm97xx bus
> > looks mostly like platform. The only difference is the name. To help
> > visualisation, devices can have parents. Just set (in pseudocode)
> > wm97xx-touchscreen->parent to wm97xx, do the same for wm97xx-battery
> > and so on. Thus all devices would be on the platform device but with
> > proper parent <-> child notation.
>
> That's exactly what I had understood you to mean. I guess it's just
> that using the platform bus for this purpose feels like an abstraction
> violation to me due to having platform devices parented off a device on
> another bus. Obviously it's just my model of a platform device that's
> wrong here. I will change the driver to use the platform bus for my
> next submission.

Hmm. I forgot about rooting this onto ac97 bus. But I would still suggest
using platform bus just for the sake of code clarity and simplicity.

>
> > git://git.mnementh.co.uk/linux-2.6-im.git#tmio_dev_try3. Look for
>
> Thanks, I'll take a look.
>
> > 2008/1/19, Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>:
>
> > > current patch series these chips all also provide an audio codec which
> > > requires a reasonably substantial driver for full support.
>
> > This would only touch child devices organisation.
>
> Indeed - I mention it mostly for additional motivation.
>

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With best wishes
Dmitry