From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755054AbcAHMvt (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2016 07:51:49 -0500 Received: from mezzanine.sirena.org.uk ([106.187.55.193]:41894 "EHLO mezzanine.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754638AbcAHMvr (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2016 07:51:47 -0500 Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 12:51:17 +0000 From: Mark Brown To: Laxman Dewangan Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski , rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, robh+dt@kernel.org, pawel.moll@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com, ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, galak@codeaurora.org, linus.walleij@linaro.org, gnurou@gmail.com, lee.jones@linaro.org, a.zummo@towertech.it, alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com, lgirdwood@gmail.com, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, swarren@nvidia.com, treding@nvidia.com, Chaitanya Bandi Message-ID: <20160108125117.GM6588@sirena.org.uk> References: <1452177524-23192-1-git-send-email-ldewangan@nvidia.com> <1452177524-23192-6-git-send-email-ldewangan@nvidia.com> <568F8D7E.10500@nvidia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XZn3P0VKTizxZG2b" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <568F8D7E.10500@nvidia.com> X-Cookie: APL hackers do it in the quad. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a01:348:6:8808:fab::3 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] [PATCH 5/6] rtc: max77620: add support for max77620/max20024 RTC driver X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:24:06 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mezzanine.sirena.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --XZn3P0VKTizxZG2b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 03:50:46PM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote: > Yaah, that is the issue on IP based PMIC system and it happen with the Maxim > and TI. > The MFD and its sub module drivers are too much couped and hence dificult > to use the IP driver across PMIC. For almost all Maxim PMIC, we end up of > same type of RTC driver. > Probably, we need to enhance the mfd sub system to allow sub module driver > to decoupe from its APIs. Could you be more specific about the issues here please? I can't think of any barriers and you've not mentioned any barriers... --XZn3P0VKTizxZG2b Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWj7DEAAoJECTWi3JdVIfQgFIH/26MBEPgSRynUZFlJHbdiig5 2NisJbsGLrhNLUG7PcVoNt8dIjsHlt8f6JsZqhoxm+kwd/fwc02lAceRtXlrcluW BWw0xQkHLi8haOnZQmECd/J7vLyyWIAWhtuqY/pWOMi1IsChAG5kIhpDurWu9nos DGWqXBuTQ23qQyisC+FlgViaEiwwl6Db27BAHHMkTQ51bxXVmuzHZmY5PkIvMkR8 r2WuaXJQSmjMR+srmTwMjApQs0c/HYVYIiIaQn7Tihl3+AGbkk6JgR7JgMhBeSjw +IWkMZ57Q17/7zBfpVIJFcbTaFnWSaQsk5t9KB7h8QscuRLSgwfWf3ctUmZG36c= =QLbi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XZn3P0VKTizxZG2b--