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

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>>>>> "Yang," == Yang, Wenyou <Wenyou.Yang@atmel.com> writes:

Hi,

>> > The MFD sub device is registered as a platform device, the existing  > act8865
 >> driver is registered as an i2c_driver. How do they match? :)
 >> 
 >> > Could you point out which exiting driver for me to reference.  Thank you!
 >> 
 >> What I'm saying is that it isn't nice that we end up with both act8865-regulator.c
 >> and act8954-regulator.c doing 95% the same. This can either be fixed by:
 >> 
 >> - Adding act8865 support to your mfd driver (but only registering the
 >> regulator subdev for act8865) and changing the existing
 >> act8865-regulator driver to work as a mfd subdev (platform device)
 >> 
 >> - Extending the act8865-regulator driver to register as a platform
 >> driver in ADDITION to a i2c driver so it can be used with mfd. The
 >> driver already uses regmap so it should only be a matter of adding the
 >> pdev probe/remove functions.

 > After think twice, I think this will complicates the act8865-regulator driver.

I don't think it will add a lot of complication (E.G. basically just the
platform probe/remove functions), but Ok - I'll wait and see your
simplified driver.

-- 
Venlig hilsen,
Peter Korsgaard 

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RE: [PATCH v2 1/2] regulator: act8945a: add regulator driver for  ACT8945A "Yang, Wenyou" <Wenyou.Yang@atmel.com> - 2016-01-20 08:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] regulator: act8945a: add regulator driver for ACT8945A Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> - 2016-01-20 08:50 +0100

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