Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] mfd: add 88pm88x driver

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On Thu, 01 Feb 2024, Karel Balej wrote:

> Lee Jones, 2024-01-31T11:03:11+00:00:
> > On Sun, 28 Jan 2024, Karel Balej wrote:
> > > > > +	/* GPIO1: DVC, GPIO0: input */
> > > > > +	REG_SEQ0(PM88X_REG_GPIO_CTRL1, 0x40),
> > > >
> > > > Shouldn't you set these up using Pintrl?
> > > 
> > > You mean to add a new MFD cell for the pins and write the respective
> > > driver? The downstream implementation has no such thing so I'm not sure
> > > if I would be able to do that from scratch.
> >
> > This is not a Pinctrl driver.
> >
> > Isn't there a generic API you can use?
> 
> I'm sorry, I don't think I understand what you mean.

Perhaps I misunderstand the code.  It looks like this regmap patch hack
is configuring pins and a bunch of other things.  Would that be a
correct assessment?

If so, where do we draw the line here?  Do we accept a 1000 line driver
which configures a large SoC with a bunch of bespoke register writes?

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]




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