Re: [PATCH v2 07/10] regulator: Add driver for Maxim 77802 PMIC regulators

From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	Mike Turquette <mturquette@linaro.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>,
	Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
	Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd.simons@collabora.co.uk>,
	Daniel Stone <daniels@collabora.com>,
	Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/10] regulator: Add driver for Maxim 77802 PMIC regulators
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:10:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140618141048.GA15956@lee--X1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53A16047.7010409@collabora.co.uk>

On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:

> Hello Lee,
> 
> Thanks a lot for your feedback.
> 
> On 06/17/2014 11:17 PM, Lee Jones wrote:
> >> The MAX77802 PMIC has 10 high-efficiency Buck and 32 Low-dropout
> >> (LDO) regulators. This patch adds support for all these regulators
> >> found on the MAX77802 PMIC and is based on a driver added by Simon
> >> Glass to the Chrome OS kernel 3.8 tree.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk>
> >> ---
> >> 
> >> Changes since v1:
> >>  - Remove unneeded check if num_regulators != MAX77802_MAX_REGULATORS.
> >>  - Fix .set_suspend_mode handler comment and split regulators ops for
> >>    regulators that behave differently. Suggested by Mark Brown.
> >>  - Use module_platform_driver() instead of having init/exit functions.
> >>    Suggested by Mark Brown.
> >>  - Use the new descriptor-based GPIO interface instead of the deprecated
> >>    integer based GPIO one. Suggested by Mark Brown.
> >>  - Look for "regulators" child node instead of "voltage-regulators" to be
> >>    consistent with other PMIC drivers. Suggested by Mark Brown.
> >> 
> >>  drivers/mfd/max77802.c       |   1 +
> > 
> > Can you remove all of the MFD changes from patches 7, 8 and 9 and
> > create new one.  That way there's no requirement for any cross
> > subsystem messiness.
> > 
> 
> Sure, Mark already suggested the same and I'll do it on the next version.
> 
> But there still be some cross-subsystem dependency/messiness since the
> regulator, clk and rtc drivers include the mfd max77802 headers that are added
> in Patch 6.

What I should have said was _avoidable_ or _unnecessary_ messiness.

> So I guess you should either a) take the whole patch-set through your mfd tree
> or b) merge the mfd patches and create an immutable branch that can be pulled by
> Mark, Mike and Alessandro.
> 
> I don't know what's the preferred workflow in these cases...

That's fine.  I'm happy to create shared branches when required.

> >>  drivers/regulator/Kconfig    |   9 +
> >>  drivers/regulator/Makefile   |   1 +
> >>  drivers/regulator/max77802.c | 701 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>  4 files changed, 712 insertions(+)
> >>  create mode 100644 drivers/regulator/max77802.c
> > 
> 
> Best regards,
> Javier

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