Lee Jones <lee.jo...@linaro.org> writes: > On Fri, 26 Apr 2019, Esben Haabendal wrote: > >> The serial8250-mfd driver is for adding 8250/16550 UART ports as functions >> to an MFD driver. >> >> When calling mfd_add_device(), platform_data should be a pointer to a >> struct plat_serial8250_port, with proper settings like .flags, .type, >> .iotype, .regshift and .uartclk. Memory (or ioport) and IRQ should be >> passed as cell resources. > > What? No, please! > > If you *must* create a whole driver just to be able to use > platform_*() helpers (which I don't think you should), then please > call it something else. This doesn't have anything to do with MFD.
True. I really don't think it is a good idea to create a whole driver just to be able to use platform_get_*() helpers. And if I am forced to do this, because I am unable to convince Andy to improve the standard serial8250 driver to support that, it should be called MFD. The driver would be generally usable for all usecases where platform_get_*() works. I don't have any idea what to call such a driver. It really would just be a fork of the current serial8250 driver, just allowing use of platform_get_*(), supporting exactly the same hardware. I am still hoping that we can find a way to improve serial8250 to be usable in these cases. /Esben
