linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] mfd: add 88pm88x driver

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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2024 12:45:50 +0000
From: Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>
To: Karel Balej <karelb@...li.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc: Karel Balej <balejk@...fyz.cz>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Duje Mihanović <duje.mihanovic@...le.hr>,
	~postmarketos/upstreaming@...ts.sr.ht, phone-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] mfd: add 88pm88x driver

On Thu, 01 Feb 2024, Karel Balej wrote:

> Lee Jones, 2024-01-31T11:03:11+00:00:
> > On Sun, 28 Jan 2024, Karel Balej wrote:
> > > > > +	/* GPIO1: DVC, GPIO0: input */
> > > > > +	REG_SEQ0(PM88X_REG_GPIO_CTRL1, 0x40),
> > > >
> > > > Shouldn't you set these up using Pintrl?
> > > 
> > > You mean to add a new MFD cell for the pins and write the respective
> > > driver? The downstream implementation has no such thing so I'm not sure
> > > if I would be able to do that from scratch.
> >
> > This is not a Pinctrl driver.
> >
> > Isn't there a generic API you can use?
> 
> I'm sorry, I don't think I understand what you mean.

Perhaps I misunderstand the code.  It looks like this regmap patch hack
is configuring pins and a bunch of other things.  Would that be a
correct assessment?

If so, where do we draw the line here?  Do we accept a 1000 line driver
which configures a large SoC with a bunch of bespoke register writes?

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]