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Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:18:40 +0300 From: Dmitry <dbaryshkov@...il.com> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org, liam.girdwood@...fsonmicro.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Core driver for WM97xx touchscreens Hi, 2008/1/20, Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 10:48:32PM +0300, Dmitry wrote: > > > Well... It's a common suggestion not to duplicate code. The wm97xx bus > > looks mostly like platform. The only difference is the name. To help > > visualisation, devices can have parents. Just set (in pseudocode) > > wm97xx-touchscreen->parent to wm97xx, do the same for wm97xx-battery > > and so on. Thus all devices would be on the platform device but with > > proper parent <-> child notation. > > That's exactly what I had understood you to mean. I guess it's just > that using the platform bus for this purpose feels like an abstraction > violation to me due to having platform devices parented off a device on > another bus. Obviously it's just my model of a platform device that's > wrong here. I will change the driver to use the platform bus for my > next submission. Hmm. I forgot about rooting this onto ac97 bus. But I would still suggest using platform bus just for the sake of code clarity and simplicity. > > > git://git.mnementh.co.uk/linux-2.6-im.git#tmio_dev_try3. Look for > > Thanks, I'll take a look. > > > 2008/1/19, Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>: > > > > current patch series these chips all also provide an audio codec which > > > requires a reasonably substantial driver for full support. > > > This would only touch child devices organisation. > > Indeed - I mention it mostly for additional motivation. > -- With best wishes Dmitry -- 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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