linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] rtc: max77686: Extend driver and add max77802 support

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Message-ID: <20160131120525.GM20165@piout.net>
Date:	Sun, 31 Jan 2016 13:05:25 +0100
From:	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kukjin Kim <kgene@...nel.org>,
	rtc-linux@...glegroups.com, Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@...sung.com>,
	Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@...sung.com>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>,
	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>,
	linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] rtc: max77686: Extend driver and add max77802
 support

Hi,

On 27/01/2016 at 00:36:36 -0300, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote :
> Hello,
> 
> On a recent disussion [0] with Krzysztof Kozlowski and Laxman Dewangan,
> we came to the conclusion that the max77686 and max77802 RTC are almost
> the same with only a few differences so there shouldn't be two separate
> drivers and is better to extend max77686 driver and delete rtc-max77802.
> 
> By making the driver more generic, other RTC IP blocks from Maxim PMICs
> could be supported as well like the max77620.
> 
> This is a v4 of a series that do this, that address issues pointed out
> in the latest version. The v1, v2 and v3 can be found at [1], [2], [3].
> 
> I've tested this patch-set on an Exynos5800 Peach Pi Chromebook that has
> a max77802 PMIC and the RTC was working correctly. Krzysztof Kozlowski
> tested v3 on an max77686 but this version only has cosmetic changes so
> it should not cause any functionality changes.
> 
> [0]: http://www.spinics.net/lists/devicetree/msg110348.html
> [1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/672568/
> [2]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/25/767
> [3]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/26/787
> 

I've applied patches 1 to 8 and I'll discussed with Arnd and Olof about
what I should do with the defconfig changes.

Thanks!


-- 
Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com