From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
khali@linux-fr.org, ben-linux@fluff.org,
Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>,
David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>,
linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net,
Mocean Laboratories <info@mocean-labs.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/19] timberdale: mfd_cell is now implicitly available to drivers
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:07:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1302113228.2840.29.camel@bwh-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110406175113.GC2757@sortiz-mobl>
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 19:51 +0200, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 06:16:49PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > So, adding an MFD cell pointer to the device structure allows us to cleanly
> > > pass both pieces of information, while keeping all the MFD sub drivers
> > > independant from the MFD core if they want/can.
> >
> > Why isn't an MFD the parent of its component devices?
> It actually is. How would that help here ?
I was thinking you could encode the component address in the
platform_device name (just as the bus address is the name of a normal
bus device). That plus the parent device pointer would be sufficient
information to look up the mfd_cell.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-06 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-03 3:54 [RFC] [PATCH 0/19] mfd sharing support Andres Salomon
2011-02-03 3:55 ` [PATCH 01/19] mfd-core: unconditionally add mfd_cell to every platform_device Andres Salomon
2011-02-03 3:58 ` [PATCH 02/19] jz4740: mfd_cell is now implicitly available to drivers Andres Salomon
2011-02-03 8:09 ` Jean Delvare
2011-02-03 4:01 ` [PATCH 03/19] ab3550: " Andres Salomon
2011-02-04 8:20 ` Mattias Wallin
2011-02-03 4:03 ` [PATCH 04/19] ab3100: " Andres Salomon
2011-02-03 12:52 ` Linus Walleij
2011-02-03 4:04 ` [PATCH 05/19] asic3: " Andres Salomon
2011-02-03 4:05 ` [PATCH 06/19] htc-pasic3: " Andres Salomon
2011-02-03 4:08 ` [PATCH 07/19] timberdale: " Andres Salomon
2011-03-31 23:05 ` Grant Likely
2011-04-01 11:20 ` Samuel Ortiz
2011-04-01 17:47 ` Andres Salomon
2011-04-01 17:56 ` Grant Likely
2011-04-01 18:00 ` Grant Likely
2011-04-01 23:52 ` Samuel Ortiz
2011-04-01 23:58 ` Grant Likely
2011-04-02 0:10 ` Andres Salomon
2011-04-04 10:03 ` Samuel Ortiz
2011-04-05 3:04 ` Grant Likely
2011-04-06 15:23 ` Samuel Ortiz
2011-04-06 15:58 ` Greg KH
2011-04-06 17:05 ` Samuel Ortiz
2011-04-06 17:16 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-04-06 17:51 ` Samuel Ortiz
2011-04-06 18:07 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2011-04-06 17:56 ` Greg KH
2011-04-06 18:25 ` Andres Salomon
2011-04-06 18:38 ` Greg KH
2011-04-07 8:04 ` Grant Likely
2011-04-06 18:47 ` Samuel Ortiz
2011-04-06 18:59 ` Felipe Balbi
2011-04-06 22:09 ` Greg KH
2011-04-07 8:09 ` Felipe Balbi
2011-04-07 13:40 ` Samuel Ortiz
2011-04-07 14:35 ` Grant Likely
2011-04-07 15:03 ` Samuel Ortiz
2011-04-07 18:06 ` Grant Likely
2011-04-07 16:24 ` Grant Likely
2011-04-01 18:26 ` Samuel Ortiz
2011-02-03 4:09 ` [PATCH 08/19] t7166xb: " Andres Salomon
2011-02-03 4:11 ` [PATCH 09/19] wl1273: " Andres Salomon
2011-02-03 4:12 ` [PATCH 10/19] sh_mobile_sdhi: " Andres Salomon
2011-02-03 4:13 ` [PATCH 11/19] tc6393xb: " Andres Salomon
2011-02-03 4:15 ` [PATCH 12/19] twl4030: " Andres Salomon
2011-02-03 6:05 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-02-03 6:39 ` Andres Salomon
2011-02-03 6:53 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-02-03 7:03 ` Andres Salomon
2011-02-03 9:31 ` Mark Brown
2011-02-05 2:39 ` Andres Salomon
2011-02-05 3:25 ` Andres Salomon
2011-02-03 12:23 ` Peter Ujfalusi
2011-02-04 10:41 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-02-03 4:16 ` [PATCH 13/19] tc6387xb: " Andres Salomon
2011-02-03 4:17 ` [PATCH 14/19] janz: " Andres Salomon
2011-02-03 4:20 ` [PATCH 15/19] mc13xxx: " Andres Salomon
2011-02-04 9:34 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-02-04 10:13 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-02-04 10:16 ` Andres Salomon
2011-02-03 4:21 ` [PATCH 16/19] mfd-core: drop platform_data/data_size from core mfd_cell struct Andres Salomon
2011-02-03 4:22 ` [PATCH 17/19] mfd-core: add refcounting support to mfd_cells Andres Salomon
2011-02-03 4:23 ` [PATCH 18/19] mfd-core: add platform_device sharing support for mfd Andres Salomon
2011-02-03 4:26 ` [PATCH 19/19] cs5535-mfd: add sharing for acpi/pms cells Andres Salomon
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