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Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] regulator: act8945a: add regulator driver for ACT8945A

From Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] regulator: act8945a: add regulator driver for ACT8945A
Date 2016-01-14 08:30 +0100
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>>>>> "Yang," == Yang, Wenyou <Wenyou.Yang@atmel.com> writes:

 >> Isn't the regulator part of the act8945a identical to act8865? Can't we just use the
 >> existing act8865-regulator.c driver? (E.G. support 8865 variant in the mfd driver,
 >> but only register the regulator sub device?)

 > Yes, the regulator part of the act8945a is identical to act8865.

 > But the act8865-regulator driver is a struct i2c_driver, and the mfd
 > sub-device driver is a platform_driver driver, it is not easy to use
 > it.

But the mfd driver could support the act8865 variant as well (by only
registering the regulator mfd cell).

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Venlig hilsen,
Peter Korsgaard

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[PATCH v2 0/2] regulator: act8945a: add regulator driver for the sub-device of ACT8945A MFD Wenyou Yang <wenyou.yang@atmel.com> - 2016-01-12 09:20 +0100
  [PATCH v2 1/2] regulator: act8945a: add regulator driver for ACT8945A Wenyou Yang <wenyou.yang@atmel.com> - 2016-01-12 09:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] regulator: act8945a: add regulator driver for ACT8945A Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> - 2016-01-13 15:30 +0100
      RE: [PATCH v2 1/2] regulator: act8945a: add regulator driver for  ACT8945A "Yang, Wenyou" <Wenyou.Yang@atmel.com> - 2016-01-14 02:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] regulator: act8945a: add regulator driver for  ACT8945A Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2016-01-14 07:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] regulator: act8945a: add regulator driver for ACT8945A Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> - 2016-01-14 08:30 +0100
          RE: [PATCH v2 1/2] regulator: act8945a: add regulator driver for  ACT8945A "Yang, Wenyou" <Wenyou.Yang@atmel.com> - 2016-01-14 09:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] regulator: act8945a: add regulator driver for ACT8945A Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> - 2016-01-14 12:50 +0100
              RE: [PATCH v2 1/2] regulator: act8945a: add regulator driver for  ACT8945A "Yang, Wenyou" <Wenyou.Yang@atmel.com> - 2016-01-14 13:50 +0100
  [PATCH v2 2/2] regulator: add documentation for ACT8945A's regulator DT bindings Wenyou Yang <wenyou.yang@atmel.com> - 2016-01-12 09:30 +0100

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