linux-kernel - Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (max6650) Rename the device ids to contain the hwmon suffix

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Message-ID: <20140210105346.14592yef0najhyio@67.228.131.205>
Date:	Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:53:46 -0600
From:	linux@...ck-us.net
To:	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
Cc:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>, Laszlo Papp <lpapp@....org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lm-sensors@...sensors.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (max6650) Rename the device ids to
 contain the hwmon suffix

Quoting Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>:

>
> That being said, going with MFD in this case seems quite overkill to
> me. MFD makes a lot of sense when each function has its own resources.
> As this isn't the case here, a single driver registering both an hwmon
> interface and a pinctrl interface would seem sufficient to me. But I
> think Guenter already discussed this in the past so I'll let him
> continue and decide.
>

That is what I had suggested as well (though we were talking gpio
at the time). Laszlo didn't want to do it this way for some reason.
Right now I don't really have an idea what to do.

Guenter

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