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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Michel Jaouen <michel.jaouen@stericsson.com>,
	Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@st-ericsson.com>,
	Alex Macro <alex.macro@stericsson.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mfd/ab8500: support AB9540 variant
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 14:49:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120201144925.GE17170@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdZjh6J_=DG58DkWO0bnj2Np3ujagcdOgNtYq2GfN30uRQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 03:42:59PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:

> For newer ASICs we solve it by not providing platform data
> and instead fall back to reading chip revision.

Given all that it sounds like it'd be more accurate to say that for old
chips we fall back on platform data - fall back sounds like it's a
failure mode but it seems like the opposite is true.

A more idiomatic way of doing this would be to register the device with
the appropriate name and then use driver data in the i2c_device_id to
pick the appropriate variant data up - this has the added bonus of
getting you a free device tree binding.

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-02-01 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-01 11:02 [PATCH] mfd/ab8500: support AB9540 variant Linus Walleij
2012-02-01 11:31 ` Mark Brown
2012-02-01 14:42   ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-01 14:49     ` Mark Brown [this message]

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