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On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 03:49:39PM +0900, MyungJoo Ham wrote:

> Anyway, I've been trying to implement some virtual device driver or
> psuedo framework in kernel to interconnect charger related devices,
> "charger manager". This code mentioned is to support that "charger
> manager". It is sort of at a higher level of charger related devices,
> taking device names of them as a platform data. The platform data
> taking the IRQ numbers is the one for that "charger manager".

Right, so what I'm saying is that the interface between the two blocks
should be changed so that the manager code isn't talking directly to the
interrupt but is talking to something higher level.