linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mfd: rohm PMICs - use platform_device

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Date:   Fri, 15 Nov 2019 17:06:15 +0000
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:     Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@...rohmeurope.com>
Cc:     mazziesaccount@...il.com,
        Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mfd: rohm PMICs - use platform_device_id to match MFD
 sub-devices

On Fri, 15 Nov 2019, Matti Vaittinen wrote:

> Hello Lee, Stephen, Mark & All,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 03:30:12PM +0200, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> > Do device matching using the platform_device_id instead of using
> > explicit module_aliases to load modules and custom parent-data field
> > to do module loading and sub-device matching.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@...rohmeurope.com>
> > ---
> > 
> > Thanks to Stephen Boyd I just learned we can use platform_device_id
> > to do device and module matching for MFD sub-devices. This is handy
> > in cases where more than one chips are supported by same sub-device
> > drivers. For ROHM it currently is clk and regulator - but also the
> > RTC when BD71828 is in-tree.
> 
> I have been preparing driver for yet another ROHM PMIC (bd71828) - and
> the patch has been taking a few spins as RFC now. I would like to send
> first non RFC version of it - and I would like to write it on top of
> this patch. Is it Ok if I include this patch in the series - or should
> this stay as independent change? I would like to try avoid conflicting
> patches.

You can draft this patch in.

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Lee Jones [李琼斯]
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