Re: [RFT 0/4] mfd: regulator: max14577: Remove support for platform data

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>]

On Monday, February 27, 2017 05:32:37 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
> <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Friday, February 17, 2017 10:01:56 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Minor cleanup of max14577 family of drivers. The dependency inside:
> >> 1. Patch #3 and #4 depends for safeness on #1 so no one would try to
> >>    run the driver on non-DT platform (such platform does not exist anyway...).
> >> 2. Patch #4 depends on patch #3 (compile time dependency).
> >>
> >> Unfortunately I do not have the boards using these drivers, so testing
> >> would be appreciated.
> >
> > Your patchset looks fine to me but I've noticed that
> > maxim,max14577 bindings are not used currently in
> > the mainline kernel.
> >
> > AFAIK MAX14577 support is needed only for Gear1 board
> > which doesn't have DTS file in the upstream kernel
> > (moreover Exynos4212 SoC support has been removed
> > recently).
> >
> > It seems that MAX14577 support should also go away
> > (unless there are some other boards using it that we
> > support in the mainline kernel).
> 
> The driver supports two chipsets: max14577 and max77836. As you noted,
> the first one is for Gear 1. The second one is present on Gear2 which
> is supported by mainline. Simplifying the driver to support only
> max77836 would be a task requiring testing. I think review would be in
> such case not enough.

I think that this shouldn't be a big problem (if no one
else volunteers we can do the testing on Gear2 device).

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics