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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:23:59 +0100 From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com> To: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] mfd: Allow multiple MFD cells with the same name On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:35:55AM +0200, Samuel Ortiz wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:30:18PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > Samuel, do you have any thoughts on this patch? As I said... > I think it's safe to expect people that decide they need this feature will be > careful enough to make sure they dont get ID collisions. Yes, and it should be fairly easy to work out what's gone wrong if there are any problems. > > ...but it'd be really helpful to get some idea if this approach is going > > to be viable for some code I'm currently working on. > I'm ok with this patch, but I'd like the new cell->id field to be more > documented. In particular we should mention that one should leave it to 0 > unless trying to add several cells of the same type. > I'll push this patch once I'll be back from vacation, thanks. OK, thanks. I'm not sure when you're back from your vacation but early next week I should be releasing the code which I was mentioning above - if you've not applied it before then I'll try to include a revised version with more documentation in that series. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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