linux-kernel - Re: [NEW DRIVER V4 0/7] DA9058 PMIC - please comment on this new driver

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Date:	Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:20:38 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	"Opensource [Anthony Olech]" <anthony.olech.opensource@...semi.com>
Cc:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Dajun Chen <david.chen@...semi.com>
Subject: Re: [NEW DRIVER V4 0/7] DA9058 PMIC - please comment on this new
 driver

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 09:18:41AM +0000, Opensource [Anthony Olech] wrote:

> The reason why they are separate is that they are probed with different data
> structures and they use a different wrapper to access the "regmap" API.
> However, that is not a blocking issue, but it would mean re-writing the core
> MFD component of all the affected drivers. Maybe the way forward is:

> Is it possible to provide some "core" ONKEY API or functionality to handle the
> commonality in a similar fashion to the regulator core as done by Mark Brown?

Well, it's clearly possible to at least turn the polling and interrupt
combination into a library...

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