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From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 02/11] mfd: Add support for Kontron sl28cpld management controller
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 19:41:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200609184142.GN4106@dell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200609171520.GC1019634@bogus>

On Tue, 09 Jun 2020, Rob Herring wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 05:01:17PM +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
> > Am 2020-06-09 16:42, schrieb Mark Brown:
> > > On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 04:38:31PM +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
> > > 
> > > >   mfd-device@10 {
> > > >     compatible = "simple-regmap", "simple-mfd";
> > > >     reg = <10>;
> > > >     regmap,reg-bits = <8>;
> > > >     regmap,val-bits = <8>;
> > > >     sub-device@0 {
> > > >       compatible = "vendor,sub-device0";
> > > >       reg = <0>;
> > > >     };
> > > 
> > > A DT binding like this is not a good idea, encoding the details of the
> > > register map into the DT binding makes it an ABI which is begging for
> > > trouble.  I'd also suggest that any device using a generic driver like
> > > this should have a specific compatible string for the device so we can
> > > go back and add quirks later if we need them.
> > 
> > Like in the spidev case, yes. But OTOH if I _just_ encode the parameters
> > for the regmap a MFD, Lee don't agree because its just a shim. So either
> > way I seem to be stuck here.
> > 
> > Where should I put the code to create an i2c driver, init a regmap and
> > populate its childen?
> 
> Find another driver doing this already and rename it 'simple-mfd' (no 
> relation to the DT binding) and add your compatible string to it. 
> 'Generic' or 'simple' drivers don't require generic/simple DT bindings.

Creating a generic driver is one of the options spinning around in my
head.  If nothing better comes of these discussions, I'll turn my hand
to it soon.

> Or extend the existing syscon driver to look up the bus_type and create 
> the regmap based on the bus type?

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-09 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-04 21:10 [PATCH v4 00/11] Add support for Kontron sl28cpld Michael Walle
2020-06-04 21:10 ` [PATCH v4 01/11] dt-bindings: mfd: Add bindings for sl28cpld Michael Walle
2020-06-09 16:28   ` Rob Herring
2020-06-04 21:10 ` [PATCH v4 02/11] mfd: Add support for Kontron sl28cpld management controller Michael Walle
2020-06-05  6:57   ` Lee Jones
2020-06-05  9:51     ` Michael Walle
2020-06-05 10:50     ` Mark Brown
2020-06-05 20:07       ` Michael Walle
2020-06-06 11:46         ` Mark Brown
2020-06-06 12:45           ` Michael Walle
2020-06-08  8:28             ` Lee Jones
2020-06-08 10:02               ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-08 15:41                 ` Michael Walle
2020-06-08 18:56                   ` Lee Jones
2020-06-08 21:09                     ` Michael Walle
2020-06-09  6:47                       ` Lee Jones
2020-06-09 14:38                         ` Michael Walle
2020-06-09 14:42                           ` Mark Brown
2020-06-09 15:01                             ` Michael Walle
2020-06-09 17:15                               ` Rob Herring
2020-06-09 17:29                                 ` Mark Brown
2020-06-09 18:41                                 ` Lee Jones [this message]
2020-06-09 15:19                           ` Lee Jones
2020-06-09 15:30                             ` Michael Walle
2020-06-09 19:45                               ` Lee Jones
2020-06-10  7:10                                 ` Michael Walle
2020-06-10  7:19                                   ` Lee Jones
2020-06-10  7:49                                     ` Michael Walle
2020-06-10  7:56                                       ` Lee Jones
2020-06-10  9:27                                         ` Michael Walle
2020-06-10 18:30                                           ` Lee Jones
2020-06-10 17:16                                     ` Rob Herring
2020-06-10 18:02                                       ` Lee Jones
2020-06-08 18:20                 ` Lee Jones
2020-06-09 16:54               ` Rob Herring
2020-06-09 18:52                 ` Lee Jones
2020-06-05  8:01   ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-05  8:02     ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-05 10:09     ` Michael Walle
2020-06-05 10:48       ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-05 11:51         ` Michael Walle
2020-06-04 21:10 ` [PATCH v4 03/11] irqchip: add sl28cpld interrupt controller support Michael Walle
2020-06-05  1:26   ` kernel test robot
2020-06-05  8:07   ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-08 15:12   ` kernel test robot
2020-06-04 21:10 ` [PATCH v4 04/11] watchdog: add support for sl28cpld watchdog Michael Walle
2020-06-05  8:14   ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-05 10:24     ` Michael Walle
2020-06-05 10:50       ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-05 13:52         ` Guenter Roeck
2020-06-05 14:09           ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-05 15:05             ` Guenter Roeck
2020-06-05 16:04               ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-05 16:34                 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-06-04 21:10 ` [PATCH v4 05/11] pwm: add support for sl28cpld PWM controller Michael Walle
2020-06-05  8:15   ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-05  8:49   ` Lee Jones
2020-06-05  9:33     ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-05 11:39     ` Michael Walle
2020-06-05 18:17     ` Michael Walle
2020-06-08  7:46       ` Lee Jones
2020-06-04 21:10 ` [PATCH v4 06/11] gpio: add support for the sl28cpld GPIO controller Michael Walle
2020-06-05 12:00   ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-05 12:42     ` Michael Walle
2020-06-05 13:15       ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-05 18:44         ` Michael Walle
2020-06-05 21:19           ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-04 21:10 ` [PATCH v4 07/11] hwmon: add support for the sl28cpld hardware monitoring controller Michael Walle
2020-06-05 12:06   ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-04 21:10 ` [PATCH v4 08/11] arm64: dts: freescale: sl28: enable sl28cpld Michael Walle
2020-06-04 21:10 ` [PATCH v4 09/11] arm64: dts: freescale: sl28: map GPIOs to input events Michael Walle
2020-06-04 21:10 ` [PATCH v4 10/11] arm64: dts: freescale: sl28: enable LED support Michael Walle
2020-06-04 21:10 ` [PATCH v4 11/11] arm64: dts: freescale: sl28: enable fan support Michael Walle
2020-06-05  6:13 ` [PATCH v4 00/11] Add support for Kontron sl28cpld Lee Jones

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