Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] regulator: act8945a: add regulator driver for ACT8945A

From: Peter Korsgaard
Date: Wed Jan 20 2016 - 02:42:11 EST


>>>>> "Yang," == Yang, Wenyou <Wenyou.Yang@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Hi,

>> > The MFD sub device is registered as a platform device, the existing > act8865
>> driver is registered as an i2c_driver. How do they match? :)
>>
>> > Could you point out which exiting driver for me to reference. Thank you!
>>
>> What I'm saying is that it isn't nice that we end up with both act8865-regulator.c
>> and act8954-regulator.c doing 95% the same. This can either be fixed by:
>>
>> - Adding act8865 support to your mfd driver (but only registering the
>> regulator subdev for act8865) and changing the existing
>> act8865-regulator driver to work as a mfd subdev (platform device)
>>
>> - Extending the act8865-regulator driver to register as a platform
>> driver in ADDITION to a i2c driver so it can be used with mfd. The
>> driver already uses regmap so it should only be a matter of adding the
>> pdev probe/remove functions.

> After think twice, I think this will complicates the act8865-regulator driver.

I don't think it will add a lot of complication (E.G. basically just the
platform probe/remove functions), but Ok - I'll wait and see your
simplified driver.

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Venlig hilsen,
Peter Korsgaard