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Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] mux: Add new API to get mux_control ref by device name.

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On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 12:12 AM, Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se> wrote:
> On 2017-07-08 00:03, sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com wrote:
>> From: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>
>>
>> Currently this driver only provides a single API, mux_control_get() to
>> get mux_control reference based on mux_name, and also this API has tight
>> dependency on device tree node. For devices, that does not use device
>> tree, it makes it difficult to use this API. This patch adds new
>> API to access mux_control reference based on device name, chip index and
>> controller index value.
>
> I assume this is for the Intel USB Multiplexer that you sent a driver for
> a month or so ago? If so, you still have not answered these questions:
>
>    Is any other consumer in the charts at all? Can this existing consumer
>    ever make use of some other mux? If the answer to both those questions
>    are 'no', then I do not see much point in involving the mux subsystem at
>    all. The Broxton USB PHY driver could just as well write to the register
>    all by itself, no?
>
> that I asked in https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/5/31/58
>
> What is the point of that driver?

Without Heikki's blessing, NAK for this activity.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

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[PATCH v1 1/1] mux: Add new API to get mux_control ref by device name. sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com - 2017-07-08 00:10 +0200
  [PATCH] mux: fix err_cast.cocci warnings kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2017-07-08 22:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] mux: Add new API to get mux_control ref by device  name. kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2017-07-08 22:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] mux: Add new API to get mux_control ref by device name. Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-07-08 23:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] mux: Add new API to get mux_control ref by device  name. "Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan" <sathyaosid@gmail.com> - 2017-07-09 01:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] mux: Add new API to get mux_control ref by device  name. "Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan" <sathyaosid@gmail.com> - 2017-07-09 01:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] mux: Add new API to get mux_control ref by device  name. sathyanarayanan kuppuswamy          <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com> - 2017-07-10 23:40 +0200

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