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Message-ID: <20090725112359.GB4600@sirena.org.uk>
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.
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