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From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Zha Qipeng <qipeng.zha@intel.com>,
	"David E . Box" <david.e.box@linux.intel.com>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 35/36] platform/x86: intel_pmc_ipc: Convert to MFD
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:14:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200120111450.GE15507@dell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200120091258.GH2665@lahna.fi.intel.com>

On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, Mika Westerberg wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 08:12:46AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > Well, by "library" I mean that the SCU IPC itself does not bind to
> > > anything but instead it gets called by different drivers such as this
> > > one passing the device pointer that is the SCU IPC device. Here for
> > > example it is the platfrom device created from an ACPI description.
> > 
> > Not keen on that at all.  Why can it not be a platform device?
> 
> We also call the same library from a PCI driver (intel_scu_pcidrv.c in
> this series) where the device is of type struct pci_dev.

Not sure I understand the issue.

What does the device do?

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-20 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-13 13:55 [PATCH v3 00/36] platform/x86: Rework intel_scu_ipc and intel_pmc_ipc drivers Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:55 ` [PATCH v3 01/36] platform/x86: intel_mid_powerbtn: Take a copy of ddata Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:55 ` [PATCH v3 02/36] platform/x86: intel_scu_ipcutil: Remove default y from Kconfig Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:55 ` [PATCH v3 03/36] platform/x86: intel_scu_ipc: Add constants for register offsets Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:55 ` [PATCH v3 04/36] platform/x86: intel_scu_ipc: Remove Lincroft support Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:55 ` [PATCH v3 05/36] platform/x86: intel_scu_ipc: Drop intel_scu_ipc_i2c_cntrl() Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:55 ` [PATCH v3 06/36] platform/x86: intel_scu_ipc: Fix interrupt support Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:55 ` [PATCH v3 07/36] platform/x86: intel_scu_ipc: Sleeping is fine when polling Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:55 ` [PATCH v3 08/36] platform/x86: intel_scu_ipc: Drop unused prototype intel_scu_ipc_fw_update() Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:55 ` [PATCH v3 09/36] platform/x86: intel_scu_ipc: Drop unused macros Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:55 ` [PATCH v3 10/36] platform/x86: intel_scu_ipc: Drop intel_scu_ipc_io[read|write][8|16]() Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:55 ` [PATCH v3 11/36] platform/x86: intel_scu_ipc: Drop intel_scu_ipc_raw_command() Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:55 ` [PATCH v3 12/36] platform/x86: intel_scu_ipc: Split out SCU IPC functionality from the SCU driver Mika Westerberg
2020-01-15  8:35   ` Lee Jones
2020-01-13 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 13/36] platform/x86: intel_scu_ipc: Reformat kernel-doc comments of exported functions Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 14/36] platform/x86: intel_scu_ipc: Introduce new SCU IPC API Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 15/36] platform/x86: intel_mid_powerbtn: Convert to use " Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 16/36] watchdog: intel-mid_wdt: " Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 17/36] platform/x86: intel_scu_ipcutil: " Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 18/36] platform/x86: intel_pmc_ipc: Make intel_pmc_gcr_update() static Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 19/36] platform/x86: intel_pmc_ipc: Make intel_pmc_ipc_simple_command() static Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 20/36] platform/x86: intel_pmc_ipc: Make intel_pmc_ipc_raw_cmd() static Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 21/36] platform/x86: intel_pmc_ipc: Drop intel_pmc_gcr_read() and intel_pmc_gcr_write() Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 22/36] platform/x86: intel_pmc_ipc: Drop ipc_data_readb() Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 23/36] platform/x86: intel_pmc_ipc: Get rid of unnecessary includes Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 24/36] platform/x86: intel_scu_ipc: Add function to remove SCU IPC Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 25/36] platform/x86: intel_pmc_ipc: Start using " Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 26/36] mfd: intel_soc_pmic: Add SCU IPC member to struct intel_soc_pmic Mika Westerberg
2020-01-15  8:44   ` Lee Jones
2020-01-15  8:58     ` Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 27/36] mfd: intel_soc_pmic_bxtwc: Convert to use new SCU IPC API Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 28/36] mfd: intel_soc_pmic_mrfld: " Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 29/36] platform/x86: intel_telemetry: " Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 30/36] platform/x86: intel_pmc_ipc: Drop intel_pmc_ipc_command() Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 31/36] x86/platform/intel-mid: Add empty stubs for intel_scu_devices_[create|destroy]() Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 32/36] platform/x86: intel_pmc_ipc: Move PCI IDs to intel_scu_pcidrv.c Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 33/36] platform/x86: intel_pmc_ipc: Use octal permissions in sysfs attributes Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 34/36] platform/x86: intel_pmc_ipc: Switch to use driver->dev_groups Mika Westerberg
2020-01-13 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 35/36] platform/x86: intel_pmc_ipc: Convert to MFD Mika Westerberg
2020-01-16 13:21   ` Lee Jones
2020-01-16 14:37     ` Mika Westerberg
2020-01-17 11:32       ` Lee Jones
2020-01-17 14:27         ` Mika Westerberg
2020-01-20  8:12           ` Lee Jones
2020-01-20  9:12             ` Mika Westerberg
2020-01-20 11:14               ` Lee Jones [this message]
2020-01-20 11:26                 ` Mika Westerberg
2020-01-20 12:50                   ` Lee Jones
2020-01-20 13:07                     ` Mika Westerberg
2020-01-20  9:26         ` Mika Westerberg
2020-01-20 11:11           ` Lee Jones
2020-01-20 11:13             ` Lee Jones
2020-01-13 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 36/36] MAINTAINERS: Update entry for Intel Broxton PMC driver Mika Westerberg

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