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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	DTML <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>, arm-soc <arm@kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Lyra Zhang <zhang.lyra@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>, Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
	Orson Zhai <orsonzhai@gmail.com>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add new device nodes for Spreadtrum SC9860 platform
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 12:20:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190212122035.GA20635@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMz4kuJdPts31Ak-H=VAivvoqqPtxO5M1RdqrNPwTLT5d1h_7w@mail.gmail.com>


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On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 04:40:10PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 21:05, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:

> > You can just list all the individual device names in the of_match_table
> > for the MFD and then it can bind to any of them.  You can always map
> > them onto the same behaviour in the MFD driver if they are identical
> > from a software point of view.

> If I understood correctly, as you suggested, we should add new
> mfd_cell groups to list all different PMICs' device names. Something
> like:

I do think this is a good idea (registering the components of the MFD
using mfd_cell), though it wasn't quite the point I was making.  Having
individual device names matters less for Linux-internal names like this.

> But from my point, they are just some meaningless duplication, and
> will waste lots of code there.

I was more thinking of the of_match table that has the IDs that appear
in DT - they're the one that's the ABI.  Look at something like wm8994
where the driver has several IDs listed in the main table then selects
function drivers based on that.

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-12 12:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-21  7:38 [PATCH 0/4] Add new device nodes for Spreadtrum SC9860 platform Baolin Wang
2019-01-21  7:38 ` [PATCH 1/4] arm64: dts: sprd: Remove PMIC INTC irq trigger type Baolin Wang
2019-01-21  7:38 ` [PATCH 2/4] arm64: dts: sprd: Add ADC calibration support Baolin Wang
2019-01-21  7:38 ` [PATCH 3/4] arm64: dts: sprd: Add SC2731 charger device Baolin Wang
2019-01-30 16:45   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-21  7:38 ` [PATCH 4/4] arm64: dts: sprd: Add SC27XX fuel gauge device Baolin Wang
2019-01-30 16:46 ` [PATCH 0/4] Add new device nodes for Spreadtrum SC9860 platform Arnd Bergmann
2019-02-01 12:05   ` Baolin Wang
2019-02-01 13:05     ` Mark Brown
2019-02-12  8:40       ` Baolin Wang
2019-02-12 12:20         ` Mark Brown [this message]
2019-02-13  5:45           ` Baolin Wang

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