linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] platform/x86: Add crystal_cove

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Date:   Thu, 30 Dec 2021 19:40:29 +0100
From:   Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc:     Mark Gross <markgross@...nel.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
        Stephan Gerhold <stephan@...hold.net>,
        Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] platform/x86: Add crystal_cove_charger driver

Hi,

On 12/25/21 15:37, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 1:55 PM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Driver for the external-charger IRQ pass-through function of the
>> Bay Trail Crystal Cove PMIC.
> 
> Intel Bay Trail (same in the code)

Ack will fix before merging.

>> Note this is NOT a power_supply class driver, it just deals with IRQ
>> pass-through, this requires this separate driver because the PMIC's
>> level 2 interrupt for this must be explicitly acked.
>>
>> This new driver gets enabled by the existing X86_ANDROID_TABLETS Kconfig
>> option because the x86-android-tablets module is the only user of the
>> exported external-charger IRQ.
> 
> ...
> 
>>  drivers/platform/x86/crystal_cove_charger.c | 153 ++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> I'm wondering why it's not under the intel/ subfolder. Do we expect to
> have the same PMIC used on other x86 vendors?

I was wondering about doing this myself before submitting this upstream,
since you have the same idea, lets go for it. I'll move this before
merging it.

> 
> ...
> 
>> +static int crystal_cove_charger_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> +{
> 
> Adding
> 
>   struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
> 
> may increase readability a bit and perhaps reduce the amount of LOCs.

Normally I'm a fan of doing that myself, but it doesn't really help
here since there are only a few references and those fit in 1 line.

Regards,

Hans