RE: [PATCH RFC] mfd: syscon: Decouple syscon interface from syscon devices

2014-07-27 Thread Pankaj Dubey
; vikas.saj...@samsung.com; chow@samsung.com; Lee Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] mfd: syscon: Decouple syscon interface from syscon devices On Tuesday 17 June 2014 23:26:22 Tomasz Figa wrote: On 17.06.2014 17:42, Arnd Bergmann wrote: This seems like a reasonable way of solving

RE: [PATCH RFC] mfd: syscon: Decouple syscon interface from syscon devices

2014-06-24 Thread Pankaj Dubey
Hi, On Wednesday, June 18 2014, Lee Jones wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2014, Tomasz Figa wrote: On 17.06.2014 17:42, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Tuesday 17 June 2014 17:32:44 Tomasz Figa wrote: Currently a syscon entity can be only registered directly through a platform device that binds to a

Re: [PATCH RFC] mfd: syscon: Decouple syscon interface from syscon devices

2014-06-18 Thread Lee Jones
On Tue, 17 Jun 2014, Tomasz Figa wrote: On 17.06.2014 17:42, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Tuesday 17 June 2014 17:32:44 Tomasz Figa wrote: Currently a syscon entity can be only registered directly through a platform device that binds to a dedicated driver. However in certain use cases it is

Re: [PATCH RFC] mfd: syscon: Decouple syscon interface from syscon devices

2014-06-18 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 17 June 2014 23:26:22 Tomasz Figa wrote: On 17.06.2014 17:42, Arnd Bergmann wrote: This seems like a reasonable way of solving the problem, but I think there is an even better one that we have about in the past: if we promote syscon from a platform driver into a a drivers/base/

Re: [PATCH RFC] mfd: syscon: Decouple syscon interface from syscon devices

2014-06-18 Thread Michal Simek
Hi, On 06/18/2014 02:57 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Tuesday 17 June 2014 23:26:22 Tomasz Figa wrote: On 17.06.2014 17:42, Arnd Bergmann wrote: This seems like a reasonable way of solving the problem, but I think there is an even better one that we have about in the past: if we promote syscon

[PATCH RFC] mfd: syscon: Decouple syscon interface from syscon devices

2014-06-17 Thread Tomasz Figa
Currently a syscon entity can be only registered directly through a platform device that binds to a dedicated driver. However in certain use cases it is desirable to make a device used with another driver a syscon interface provider. For example, certain SoCs (e.g. Exynos) contain system

Re: [PATCH RFC] mfd: syscon: Decouple syscon interface from syscon devices

2014-06-17 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 17 June 2014 17:32:44 Tomasz Figa wrote: Currently a syscon entity can be only registered directly through a platform device that binds to a dedicated driver. However in certain use cases it is desirable to make a device used with another driver a syscon interface provider. For

Re: [PATCH RFC] mfd: syscon: Decouple syscon interface from syscon devices

2014-06-17 Thread Tomasz Figa
Hi Arnd, On 17.06.2014 17:42, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Tuesday 17 June 2014 17:32:44 Tomasz Figa wrote: Currently a syscon entity can be only registered directly through a platform device that binds to a dedicated driver. However in certain use cases it is desirable to make a device used with