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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
	Alexander Shiyan <shc_work@mail.ru>,
	Pankaj Dubey <pankaj.dubey@samsung.com>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>, Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>,
	Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net>,
	Tushar Behera <tushar.behera@linaro.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mfd: syscon: allow to register syscon with a device
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 13:18:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2470261.O5caHJeW3o@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456312741-7658-1-git-send-email-p.zabel@pengutronix.de>

On Wednesday 24 February 2016 12:19:01 Philipp Zabel wrote:
> Commit bdb0066df96e ("mfd: syscon: Decouple syscon interface from platform
> devices") added the possibility to register syscon devices without
> associated platform device. This also removed regmap debugfs facilities,
> which don't work without a device. Since there is no replacement, this
> patch allows again to register syscon regions with an associated device
> where that this device exists anyway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>

Can you elaborate how you want to use the new interface?

My immediate reaction would be that drivers calling syscon_register()
are probably doing something wrong. If we want to restore the
debugfs interfaces, there might be a better way to do this automatically.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-24 12:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-24 11:19 Philipp Zabel
2016-02-24 12:18 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2016-02-24 12:44   ` Philipp Zabel
2016-02-24 15:00     ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-24 15:02       ` Philipp Zabel
2016-02-24 16:26         ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-25 17:27           ` Philipp Zabel

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