From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756051Ab2HXGma (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2012 02:42:30 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:38337 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753243Ab2HXGmZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2012 02:42:25 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:43:00 +0800 From: Shawn Guo To: Dong Aisheng Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linus.walleij@stericsson.com, s.hauer@pengutronix.de, kernel@pengutronix.de, grant.likely@secretlab.ca, rob.herring@calxeda.com, sameo@linux.intel.com, lrg@ti.com, broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com, richard.zhao@freescale.com, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, swarren@wwwdotorg.org, paul.liu@linaro.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] mfd: add imx syscon driver based on regmap Message-ID: <20120824064257.GA31998@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net> References: <1345619928-15446-1-git-send-email-b29396@freescale.com> <1345619928-15446-2-git-send-email-b29396@freescale.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1345619928-15446-2-git-send-email-b29396@freescale.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 03:18:42PM +0800, Dong Aisheng wrote: > From: Dong Aisheng > > Add regmap based imx syscon driver. > This is usually used for access misc bits in registers which does not belong > to a specific module, for example, IOMUXC GPR and ANATOP. > With this driver, we provide a standard API for client driver to call to > access registers which are registered into syscon. > > Signed-off-by: Dong Aisheng > --- > Currently it's just simply for IMX, however the driver really is not too > much imx specific. > If people want, we probably could extend it to support other platforms too. Right. I do not see anything IMX specific there. We should probably at least give the driver a generic name from day one. -- Regards, Shawn