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Message-ID: <20160615200752.GA26173@kwestfie-linux.qualcomm.com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Jun 2016 13:07:52 -0700
From:	Kenneth Westfield <kwestfie@...eaurora.org>
To:	Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>
Cc:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kwestfie@...eaurora.org,
	plai@...eaurora.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] ASoC: msm8916: Add msm8916-wcd codec driver

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:31:36AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:16:27AM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> > On 14/06/16 16:59, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 07:18:45PM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:

> > In theory there are 3 devices,
> > one is the pmic-spmi driver, which provides regmap access to analog part of
> > codec registers.
> > second is syscon driver which provides regmap access to digital parts of
> > codec to codec driver.
> > third is the codec driver which uses both the above.
> 
> > Codec registers range is just split into two, range 0x0- 0x200 sits in pmic
> > address space and range 0x201 - 0x4ff in the SOC address space,
> 
> > Are there any other better ways to model this kinda driver?
> 
> Why not just have separate devices for each of the register maps?

Srinivas,

Mark has a good point.  Also, by having distinct devices and drivers;
you should make use of ASoC's supporting wrappers for regmap accesses.

-- 
Kenneth Westfield
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, 
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