On Monday 10 June 2013 14:52:38 Srinivas KANDAGATLA wrote:
> 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.
I was expecting that you'd actually interface with the syscon code and
build on top, rather than copy it.
There are multiple ways of doing that, e.g. you could export a function
from syscon.c that you call to register the device node and then import
the regmap from syscon into your high-level driver again.
Arnd
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