On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 03:33:27PM +0200, Michael Grzeschik wrote: > On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 01:00:43PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > syscon is one potential thing here but it seems odd for the sort of > > hardware that syscon handles to be a good fit for regmap-irq. > We have the special case that we use the syscon as the basic driver > underneath some subdevices that vary in function. We have six arcnet > controllers sitting side by side in an 8 byte offset. And after them we > have the next small memory windows for an reset controller and one > interrupt controller which the other devices reference. Why is this a syscon and not a MFD? It sounds exactly like a MFD to me, syscon is more for cases where things are really jumbled together (even in single registers) but that sounds like a bunch of separate register ranges for separate devices that happen to be very close together in address.
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