On May 28, 2014, at 11:59 AM, Bjorn Andersson <bjorn@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Kumar Gala <galak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On May 27, 2014, at 12:28 PM, Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> This series adds a regulator driver for the Resource Power Manager found in >>> Qualcomm 8660, 8960 and 8064 based devices. >>> >>> The RPM driver exposes resources to its child devices, that can be accessed to >>> implement drivers for the regulators, clocks and bus frequency control that's >>> owned by the RPM in these devices. >> >> Rather than adding yet another mfd driver, how about we put this in drivers/soc/qcom as a much better location for the low level rpm code. Some code already merged in arm-soc for creation of drivers/soc/qcom/ > > Hi Kumar, > > I do see rpm as somewhat equivalent to a pmic and that was why I > followed suite and put it in mfd, but I can of course move it if you > prefer. > > > Lately I've been working on rpm, rpm-smd, smem, smd, smsm, smp2p > patches for mainline. > It could be argued that smd is a bus and should go in drivers/bus, but > for the rest I fear that we just created drivers/soc/qcom as another > dumping ground for things; a "Qualcomm specific drivers/mfd". > > But maybe that is the purpose of it ;) It is the purpose so that as we see common patterns between either drivers/soc/<VENDOR> we can refactor in the future. However, we need to all a little time for those patterns to emerge rather than shoe horning in drivers into places that don’t make sense. > > If I move the rpm driver, are there any conclusion to where I should > move the dt binding documentation? devicetree/bindings/soc/qcom include/dt-bindings/soc > > Regards, > Bjorn - k -- Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
