linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/3] regulator: core: Add regulator_lookup

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Message-ID: <20210825161300.GL5186@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 25 Aug 2021 17:13:00 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
Cc:     Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Daniel Scally <djrscally@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Mark Gross <mgross@...ux.intel.com>,
        Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@...il.com>,
        Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@...asonboard.com>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@....fi>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/3] regulator: core: Add regulator_lookup_list

On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 06:42:30PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 04:27:35PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Yeah, that or something like a generalized version of it which lets a
> > separate quirk file like they seem to have register the data to insert -

> Let's also remember that we have to handle not just regulators, but also
> GPIOs and clocks. And I'm pretty sure there will be more. We could have
> a mechanism specific to the tps68470 driver to pass platform data from
> the board file to the driver, and replicate that mechanism in different
> drivers (for other regulators, clocks and GPIOs), but I really would
> like to avoid splitting the DMI-conditioned platform data in those
> drivers directly. I'd like to store all the init data for a given
> platform in a single "board" file.

Right, that's the more general bit I'm suggesting.

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