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Date:   Wed, 16 Jan 2019 08:51:24 +0000
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:     Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@...labora.com>
Cc:     gwendal@...omium.org, drinkcat@...omium.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, groeck@...omium.org,
        kernel@...labora.com, bleung@...omium.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/7] mfd / platform: cros_ec: move cros_ec sysfs
 attributes to its own drivers.

On Wed, 12 Dec 2018, Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This is another patchset to try to cleanup a bit more the crossed
> references for cros-ec driver between the MFD and the platform/chrome
> subsystems.
> 
> The purpose of these patches is get rid of the different cros-ec attributes
> from mfd/cros_ec_dev to its own sub-driver in platform/chrome. cros_ec_dev
> continues instantiating the sub-devices but the sysfs attributes are owned
> by the platform driver.E.g. The lightbar driver should own his sysfs
> attributes and be instantiated only if the Embedded Controller has a
> lightbar.
> 
> The patchset also adds the documentation of the sysfs attributes.
> 
> Most of the patches touches mfd subsystem and platform/chrome so I'd
> suggest go all using and inmutable branch.
> 
> Best regards,
>  Enric

[...]

> Enric Balletbo i Serra (7):
>   mfd / platform: cros_ec: use devm_mfd_add_devices
>   mfd / platform: cros_ec: move lightbar attributes to its own driver
>   mfd / platform: cros_ec: move vbc attributes to its own driver
>   mfd / platform: cros_ec: move debugfs attributes to its own driver
>   mfd / platform: cros_ec: move device sysfs attributes to its own
>     driver
>   mfd / platform: cros_ec_vbc: instantiate only if the EC has a VBC
>     NVRAM
>   platform/chrome: cros_ec_lightbar: instantiate only if the EC has a
>     lightbar

These patches have been applied to my local MFD tree.  It will be
pushed when 5.0-rc3 has been released.  The MFD tree needs rebasing
onto it since it contains all of the MFD patches due for v5.0.

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Lee Jones [李琼斯]
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