> >> What you eventually see in hwmon is only a subset of all the features > >> the IC provides. You may want to read this thread: > >> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg536509.html > > > > Okay, so the best thing to do is send out the entire patch-set at > > once, CC'ing each of the maintainers on every patch so we can all see > > how this thing fits together. > > Well, I am not even sure currently where to head with the MFD bits and > its children subdevices currently.... > > I would appreciate any direction. Yesterday, I was told on IRC, I > would need to switch from i2c to platform drivers for the hwmon and > gpio parts, but looking at some existing mfd driver code and their > children drivers, I do not see it like that. > > I have already sent out the gpio driver yesterday which works fine on > its own: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1655805.html
This is going to need a lot of work. Did you run the patch through `./scripts/checkpatch.pl` before submitting? > Could you please guide me into the right direction what I need to > change once we have standalone drivers, and they should be glued > together? I thought adding an abstraction with the mfd layer would be > sufficient, but apparently, that is not enough. > > Practically speaking, I am confused since if I needed to change the > existing drivers, that means I could potentially break the interface > for the existing users if the drivers stop working on their own, but > then again, I am such a newbie that I would greatly appreciate some > pointers. The MFD subsystem is quite simple to use. I'm taken aback that this is your major stumbling block. Read though the mfd_add_device(s)() calls to see what it expects. The rest is childs play. -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog -- 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/
