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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 11:16:10 -0600
From: Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 02/11] mfd: Add support for Kontron sl28cpld management controller
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 1:19 AM Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2020, Michael Walle wrote:
> > Am 2020-06-09 21:45, schrieb Lee Jones:
> > > On Tue, 09 Jun 2020, Michael Walle wrote:
> > > > > We do not need a 'simple-regmap' solution for your use-case.
> > > > >
> > > > > Since your device's registers are segregated, just split up the
> > > > > register map and allocate each sub-device with it's own slice.
> > > >
> > > > I don't get it, could you make a device tree example for my
> > > > use-case? (see also above)
> > >
> > > &i2cbus {
> > > mfd-device@10 {
> > > compatible = "simple-mfd";
> > > reg = <10>;
> > >
> > > sub-device@10 {
> > > compatible = "vendor,sub-device";
> > > reg = <10>;
> > > };
> > > };
> > >
> > > The Regmap config would be present in each of the child devices.
> > >
> > > Each child device would call devm_regmap_init_i2c() in .probe().
> >
> > Ah, I see. If I'm not wrong, this still means to create an i2c
> > device driver with the name "simple-mfd".
>
> Yes, it does.
TBC, while fine for a driver to bind on 'simple-mfd', a DT compatible
with that alone is not fine.
> > Besides that, I don't like this, because:
> > - Rob already expressed its concerns with "simple-mfd" and so on.
>
> Where did this take place? I'd like to read up on this.
>
> > - you need to duplicate the config in each sub device
>
> You can have a share a single config.
>
> > - which also means you are restricting the sub devices to be
> > i2c only (unless you implement and duplicate other regmap configs,
> > too). For this driver, SPI and MMIO may be viable options.
>
> You could also have a shared implementation to choose between different
> busses.
I think it is really the syscon mfd driver you want to generalize to
other buses. Though with a quick look at it, there's not really a
whole lot to share. The regmap lookup would be the main thing. You are
going to need a driver instance for each bus type.
> > Thus, I'd rather implement a simple-mfd.c which implement a common
> > I2C driver for now and populate its children using
> > devm_of_platform_populate(). This could be extended to support other
> > type of regmaps like SPI in the future.
> >
> > Also some MFD drivers could be moved to this, a likely candidate is
> > the smsc-ece1099.c. Although I don't really understand its purpose,
> > if don't have CONFIG_OF.
> >
> > Judging from the existing code, this simple-mfd.c wouldn't just be
> > "a list of compatible" strings but also additional quirks and tweaks
> > for particular devices in this list.
Yes, this is why specific compatible strings are required.
> Hold off on the simple-mfd.c idea, as I'm not taken by it yet and
> wouldn't want you to waste your time. I have another idea which would
> help. Give me a few days to put something together.
>
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