On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 12:44:28PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 09:25:07AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > > >> But I also want to bring the device model into question: normally > >> when a mother device spawns children across different subsystems > >> we model them as MFD devices (drivers/mfd) that instantiate > >> children for the different subsystems. So you could spawn a > >> serial and a GPIO device from a USB-based hub device there. > >> > >> I do not know if that is really apropriate in this case. It seems the > >> device is first and foremost FTDI. > >> > >> But it could still spawn a child platform device for the GPIO stuff > >> so that this can live as a separate driver under drivers/gpio/gpio-ftdi.c > >> or similar. > >> > >> You could then use something like: > >> > >> struct platform_device *gdev; > > > > Ick, no, it's a USB device, do not abuse the platform_device code any > > more than it currently is (note, I HATE the platform device code, > > someday I'll delete it entirely... Well, I can dream...) > > Haha yeah :-) > > However is the MFD cell approach acceptable?
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