Re: [PATCH 1/2] mfd/db8500-prcmu: rename init function

From: Samuel Ortiz
Date: Mon Oct 10 2011 - 08:38:44 EST


Hi Linus,

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 01:08:21PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Samuel Ortiz <sameo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >> I can also prepare a pull request for the stuff you want if it makes
> >> things easier for you, just tell me what you want in it.
> >
> > I took the first 12 patches plus your 2 review fixes. I indeed feel the rest
> > of the patchset would need some additional work. If there's really nothing we
> > can do about factorizing more of this code between 8500 and 5500, then I'll
> > look at it for the 3.3 merge window.
>
> OK seems like a fair deal. I have different ideas, like for example
> abstracting the MBOX parts into a new mailbox subsystem since
> abstracting mailboxes has been discussed before.
Many subsystems and archs would benefit from that, i think.

> So maybe we can
> break out all of that code into drivers/mbox and proceed from
> there getting pure MFD arbiters in drivers/mfd.
Sounds good to me.

Cheers,
Samuel.

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