Re: [PATCH v4 02/11] mfd: Add support for Kontron sl28cpld management controller

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 09 Jun 2020, Rob Herring wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 05:01:17PM +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
> > Am 2020-06-09 16:42, schrieb Mark Brown:
> > > On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 04:38:31PM +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
> > > 
> > > >   mfd-device@10 {
> > > >     compatible = "simple-regmap", "simple-mfd";
> > > >     reg = <10>;
> > > >     regmap,reg-bits = <8>;
> > > >     regmap,val-bits = <8>;
> > > >     sub-device@0 {
> > > >       compatible = "vendor,sub-device0";
> > > >       reg = <0>;
> > > >     };
> > > 
> > > A DT binding like this is not a good idea, encoding the details of the
> > > register map into the DT binding makes it an ABI which is begging for
> > > trouble.  I'd also suggest that any device using a generic driver like
> > > this should have a specific compatible string for the device so we can
> > > go back and add quirks later if we need them.
> > 
> > Like in the spidev case, yes. But OTOH if I _just_ encode the parameters
> > for the regmap a MFD, Lee don't agree because its just a shim. So either
> > way I seem to be stuck here.
> > 
> > Where should I put the code to create an i2c driver, init a regmap and
> > populate its childen?
> 
> Find another driver doing this already and rename it 'simple-mfd' (no 
> relation to the DT binding) and add your compatible string to it. 
> 'Generic' or 'simple' drivers don't require generic/simple DT bindings.

Creating a generic driver is one of the options spinning around in my
head.  If nothing better comes of these discussions, I'll turn my hand
to it soon.

> Or extend the existing syscon driver to look up the bus_type and create 
> the regmap based on the bus type?

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