On 10/06/13 14:16, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Srinivas KANDAGATLA > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This mfd driver provides higher level inialization routines for various >> IPs like Ethernet, USB, PCIE, SATA and so on. Also it provides way to >> get to syscfg registers via standard regmap api which is usefull for >> drivers like pinctrl. >> >> This patch adds support to ST System Configuration registers, which can >> be configured by the drivers. >> >> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <[email protected]> >> CC: Stuart Menefy <[email protected]> >> CC: Stephen Gallimore <[email protected]> >> CC: Linus Walleij <[email protected]> >> CC: Mark Brown <[email protected]> > > What is this driver doing that drivers/mfd/syscon.c is not already > doing? As of now, the driver is very much similar to syscon + some additional functionality, but we are planning to use this file to add higher level functions to configure different IPs like ethernet, usb, power, reset and so on which are very much specific to ST System Configuration Registers.
Thanks, srini > > I just get the feeling that you're reinventing the wheel here. > > Yours, > Linus Walleij > _______________________________________________ > devicetree-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/devicetree-discuss > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
