From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-10.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2981C4338F for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2021 10:01:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5D5860560 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2021 10:01:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S240103AbhHEKBf (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2021 06:01:35 -0400 Received: from ssl.serverraum.org ([176.9.125.105]:54101 "EHLO ssl.serverraum.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S240030AbhHEKBe (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2021 06:01:34 -0400 Received: from ssl.serverraum.org (web.serverraum.org [172.16.0.2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ssl.serverraum.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5E97222178; Thu, 5 Aug 2021 12:01:15 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=walle.cc; s=mail2016061301; t=1628157675; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=5NGYQwVfxVHDz/GJP5VhlEpV2kLC+JAURoiNTdFYD0U=; b=j0GLLYEHjV9mmnzOhCJNLunL5n+2AKjGOsszlIeVirXoQimXjrd8myjG8+OVFnCLakRZHY Pew2sgK+eFe4bizwtTY5q+g+tRMSnqecimOfZywxhxhH+x4/tSRk2Watt2RIhA0rwErcE0 5FLdX/eA+sl+6DmehYjnA1MVGPOtUgA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2021 12:01:15 +0200 From: Michael Walle To: Lee Jones Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mark Brown , Alistair Francis Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mfd: simple-mfd-i2c: Add support for registering devices via MFD cells In-Reply-To: <20210805085611.864188-1-lee.jones@linaro.org> References: <20210805085611.864188-1-lee.jones@linaro.org> User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.4.11 Message-ID: X-Sender: michael@walle.cc Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am 2021-08-05 10:56, schrieb Lee Jones: > More devices are cropping up requiring only Regmap initialisation and > child registration functionality. We currently only support that if > all required devices are represented by their own Device Tree nodes > complete with compatible strings. > > However, not everyone is happy with adding empty nodes that provide no > additional device information into the Device Tree. > > Rather than have a plethora of mostly empty, function-less drivers in > MFD, we'll support those simple cases in here instead via MFD cells. > > Cc: Michael Walle > Cc: Mark Brown > Cc: Alistair Francis > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones Tested-by: Michael Walle -michael