From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>,
Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>,
Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>,
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] regulator: max14577: Add regulator driver for Maxim 14577
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 16:28:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131127162859.GD14725@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131127161323.GS3296@lee--X1>
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On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 04:13:23PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Mark Brown wrote:
> > The usual thing to do is of_get_child_by_name() on the parent to get the
> > container to search in.
> What do you mean when you say 'usual thing'? Only the max8998 does
> this currently. IMHO the better way to do it for MFD devices is
> provide a compatible string and let the framework does the rest for
> you.
No, as3722, Palmas and three of the TPS chips do the same thing. If it
were a purely Linux-internal thing I'd probably agree with you but as it
is we'd just be adding compatible strings in everyone's DTs to save one
line of code in the kernel.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-27 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-27 13:46 Krzysztof Kozlowski
2013-11-27 13:46 ` [PATCH v5 2/2] mfd: max14577: Add device tree bindings document Krzysztof Kozlowski
2013-11-27 13:59 ` [PATCH v5 1/2] regulator: max14577: Add regulator driver for Maxim 14577 Lee Jones
2013-11-27 15:20 ` Mark Brown
2013-11-27 15:23 ` Lee Jones
2013-11-27 15:42 ` Mark Brown
2013-11-27 16:13 ` Lee Jones
2013-11-27 16:28 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2013-12-02 14:12 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2013-12-03 18:10 ` Mark Brown
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