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From: Min Li <min.li.xe@renesas.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "derek.kiernan@xilinx.com" <derek.kiernan@xilinx.com>,
	"dragan.cvetic@xilinx.com" <dragan.cvetic@xilinx.com>,
	"arnd@arndb.de" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] misc: Add Renesas Synchronization Management Unit (SMU) support
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 20:12:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <OSBPR01MB477360E86A8913D07759C1C8BA759@OSBPR01MB4773.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YG3xKlSrOZvrIr3z@kroah.com>

> 
> Why not use the miscdev name field?
> 
miscdev name field is just a char pointer and I need an static array to manipulate the name with index

> 
> So it's a parent?  Why not make this a real platform_device pointer and not
> a device pointer?
> 

It is not parent and mfd field is the parent

> 
> What operations?
> 

The MFD driver will create 2 devices, one is for phc driver and another one is this driver.
The lock is to make sure these 2 driver's operations are synchronized. 

> 
> Index into what?
> 

index is passed by mfd driver and will be used as part of device name such as "rsmu0"

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-07 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-07 17:33 [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] mfd: Add Renesas Synchronization Management Unit (SMU) support min.li.xe
2021-04-07 17:33 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] misc: " min.li.xe
2021-04-07 17:45   ` Greg KH
2021-04-07 19:43     ` Min Li
2021-04-08  6:19       ` Greg KH
2021-04-08 19:40         ` Min Li
2021-04-07 17:47   ` Greg KH
2021-04-07 20:00     ` Min Li
2021-04-08  6:20       ` Greg KH
2021-04-07 17:48   ` Greg KH
2021-04-07 19:56     ` Min Li
2021-04-07 17:51   ` Greg KH
2021-04-07 20:12     ` Min Li [this message]
2021-04-08  6:36       ` Greg KH
2021-04-08 17:36         ` Min Li
2021-04-07 17:34 [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] mfd: " min.li.xe
2021-04-07 17:34 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] misc: " min.li.xe

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