From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eddie Huang Subject: Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: MediaTek: Add binding document for the AUXADC Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 11:45:25 +0800 Message-ID: <1458013525.30001.5.camel@mtksdaap41> References: <1455866326-15095-1-git-send-email-s.hauer@pengutronix.de> <20160223203254.GA14660@rob-hp-laptop> <56CDBFFE.9050406@gmail.com> <20160224151204.GP3939@pengutronix.de> <56CDF7AB.7050201@gmail.com> <20160307065233.GA21851@pengutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20160307065233.GA21851-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Matthias Brugger , Sascha Hauer Cc: Rob Herring , "linux-mediatek-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org" , "devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Hi Matthias, On Mon, 2016-03-07 at 14:52 +0800, Sascha Hauer wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 07:34:19PM +0100, Matthias Brugger wrote: > > > > > > On 24/02/16 16:12, Sascha Hauer wrote: > > >Hi Matthias, > > > > > >On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 03:36:46PM +0100, Matthias Brugger wrote: > > >> > > >> > > >>On 23/02/16 21:32, Rob Herring wrote: > > >>>On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 08:18:46AM +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote: > > >>>>Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer > > >>>>--- > > >>>> > > >>>>This is a supplement to the MTK Thermal series which was lacking the > > >>>>description for the AUXADC. > > >>> > > >>>So it will be applied with that I presume. > > >>> > > >>>Acked-by: Rob Herring > > >>> > > >> > > >>Well the basic problem that I see is, that the auxadc has some more > > >>registers (at least in mt6589) for the touch screen registers. > > >>So this makes it a candidate for syscon and regmap. > > >>But this needs a patch in the thermal driver first... > > > > > >When we want to have a driver for the auxadc we are free to write one. > > >No need to use syscon and/or regmap for it. > > > > > >Note that the auxadc is not used by the thermal *driver*, it's used by > > >the thermal *hardware*. It's the hardware that directly reads/writes > > >auxadc registers. If MTK did it right then a real auxadc driver should > > >not be disturbed by the thermal controller accesses. At least from > > > > Right, didn't realize this. > > > > >checking the datasheet the registers the thermal controller accesses > > >are completely orthogonal to the ones a auxadc driver would use. > > > > > > > As you already explained, syscon/regmap is not needed here. Just for > > completion: we already had completely orthogonal registers for the reset > > controller, and we decided to use regmap there as well. > > We should stay consistent on this. > > Matthias, is this some kind of action topic for me? We can use regmap > for the AUXADC driver if we want to, I have no problem with that. > So you want to add compatible = "mediatek,mt8173-auxadc", "syscon"; And use regmap to access auxadc register in thermal driver. Then you will accept this patch and thermal dts patch, right ? Eddie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html