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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Josh Cartwright <joshc@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
	linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] rtc: pm8xxx: use regmap API for register accesses
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 23:32:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140310233236.GD28112@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140310213524.GL18529@joshc.qualcomm.com>

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On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 04:35:24PM -0500, Josh Cartwright wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 01:47:41PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > Do we need a 

> > 	depends on REGMAP

> > in Kconfig?

> Good question.  This driver already gets the REGMAP dependency through
> it's parent (MFD_PM8XXX), which does 'select REGMAP'.

> I recall there being some history as to why individual drivers shouldn't
> explicitly depend on REGMAP, as it's the parent drivers/subsystem
> responsibility to select it when needed, however I can't recall details.
> Perhaps it's due to REGMAP not being a user-selectable option.

Yeah, it should be a select of regmap because it's more of a helper
library than a user visible feature and it's usually only on the MFD
because you can't enable the function device without the core anyway.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-03-10 23:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-10 18:44 [PATCH v2 0/6] rtc: make the pm8xxx RTC driver usable Josh Cartwright
2014-03-10 18:44 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] rtc: pm8xxx: fixup checkpatch/style issues Josh Cartwright
2014-03-10 18:44 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] rtc: pm8xxx: use regmap API for register accesses Josh Cartwright
2014-03-10 20:47   ` Andrew Morton
2014-03-10 21:35     ` Josh Cartwright
2014-03-10 21:43       ` Andrew Morton
2014-03-10 23:32       ` Mark Brown [this message]
2014-03-10 18:44 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] rtc: pm8xxx: use devm_request_any_context_irq Josh Cartwright
2014-03-10 18:44 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] rtc: pm8xxx: add support for devicetree Josh Cartwright
2014-03-10 20:47   ` Andrew Morton
2014-03-10 21:56     ` Josh Cartwright
2014-03-10 18:44 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] rtc: pm8xxx: move device_init_wakeup() before rtc_register Josh Cartwright
2014-03-10 18:44 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] documentation: bindings: document PMIC8921/8058 RTC Josh Cartwright
2014-03-10 21:22   ` Rob Herring
2014-03-10 22:11     ` Josh Cartwright
2014-03-10 22:18       ` Andrew Morton
2014-03-12 17:17         ` [PATCH v3 6/6] mfd: devicetree: bindings: add pm8xxx RTC description Josh Cartwright
2014-03-21  8:12           ` Lee Jones

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