From: "pHilipp Zabel" <philipp.zabel@gmail.com>
To: ian <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: "Ben Dooks" <ben-linux@fluff.org>, Dmitry <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [patch 4/4] MFD: Change mfd platform device usage to wrapper platform_device
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 14:29:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <74d0deb30807090529q7e32a5c3lb2c33391ffd7e847@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1215605639.3295.79.camel@wirenth>
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:13 PM, ian <spyro@f2s.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 12:50 +0100, Ben Dooks wrote:
>>
>> So, the enable/disable calls might be useful, however is there any
>> reason this could not be handled by the clock framework? The
>> suspend/resume entries where not used, and I belive should not be in
>> here.
>
> Hi Ben,
>
> I agree with you on wrapping the platform device, however the enable /
> disable methods must stay.
Ack on that. Also look also at the ds1wm driver. Right now it provides
its own enable/disable methods in platform data because it predates
the MFD core. It should be changed into an MFD cell driver, so
enable/disable methods in mfd_cell would be most useful for it.
> Other cores need them, and they arent only there for clock support.
>
> I've just looked at the TMIO MMC driver to refersh my memory and the
> suspend / resume hooks must stay also. TMIO MMC needs to be handled
> differently when suspending and when being disabled (loss of state when
> disabled).
>
> As yet, only tc6393 is 'in tree' but Im waiting for the core to settle
> down before I convert my other TMIO based code (again again) to the new
> core.
>
> So, in summary -
>
> ACK to your changes to wrap the device as an 'mfd_device'
> NAK to deleting the mfd_cell power management.
>
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regards
Philipp
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-09 12:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-09 10:49 [patch 0/4] mfd updates and proposed changes Ben Dooks
2008-07-09 10:49 ` [patch 1/4] MFD: Use to_platform_device instead of container_of Ben Dooks
2008-07-09 11:10 ` Dmitry
2008-07-10 14:47 ` Samuel Ortiz
2008-07-29 0:06 ` Samuel Ortiz
2008-07-09 10:49 ` [patch 2/4] MFD: Coding style fixes Ben Dooks
2008-07-09 11:11 ` Dmitry
2008-07-09 11:12 ` Ben Dooks
2008-07-10 14:48 ` Samuel Ortiz
2008-07-09 11:46 ` ian
2008-07-29 0:07 ` Samuel Ortiz
2008-07-09 10:49 ` [patch 3/4] MFD: Remove unnecessary fields if mfd_cell structure Ben Dooks
2008-07-09 11:09 ` Dmitry
2008-07-09 11:12 ` Ben Dooks
2008-07-09 11:16 ` Dmitry
2008-07-09 11:38 ` Ben Dooks
2008-07-09 11:44 ` Dmitry
2008-07-09 10:49 ` [patch 4/4] MFD: Change mfd platform device usage to wrapper platform_device Ben Dooks
2008-07-09 11:15 ` Dmitry
2008-07-09 11:24 ` Ben Dooks
2008-07-09 11:31 ` Dmitry
2008-07-09 11:50 ` Ben Dooks
2008-07-09 11:56 ` Dmitry
2008-07-09 12:07 ` Ben Dooks
2008-07-09 12:31 ` Dmitry
2008-07-09 13:28 ` ian
2008-07-09 13:34 ` pHilipp Zabel
2008-07-09 13:37 ` ian
2008-07-11 21:37 ` Samuel Ortiz
2008-07-09 12:13 ` ian
2008-07-09 12:29 ` pHilipp Zabel [this message]
2008-07-09 11:45 ` ian
2008-07-09 11:52 ` Dmitry
2008-07-09 21:03 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2008-07-09 21:13 ` Dmitry Baryshkov
2008-07-09 21:13 ` ian
2008-07-11 21:41 ` Samuel Ortiz
2008-07-09 20:56 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2008-07-09 21:04 ` Ben Dooks
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