RE: [PATCH 2/2] TVP514x Driver with Review comments fixed

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Thanks,
Vaibhav Hiremath

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Brownell [mailto:david-b@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 2:05 PM
> To: Hiremath, Vaibhav
> Cc: dbrownell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx;
> davinci-linux-open-source-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Jadav, Brijesh R; Shah, Hardik; Hadli,
> Manjunath; R, Sivaraj; Karicheri, Muralidharan
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] TVP514x Driver with Review comments fixed
> 
> On Monday 01 December 2008, David Brownell wrote:
> > >         - Pointer to init_reg_seq, which is pointer to array of
> structure
> > >           for tvp514x_regs. This is little bit ugly, since will
> have to
> > >           export tvp514x_regs structure.
> >
> > The platform_data should not hold such stuff; it's not board-
> specific.
> > I'd expect platform_data to hold regulator_init_data as needed to
> > instantiate the regulator; and maybe other stuff needed on this
> board
> > too.  Floor and ceiling parameters, maybe, unless they change at
> runtime.
> 
> Apologies, I was confusing this driver with another.  For a video
> codec, the platform_data should say things like which of the dozen
> or so input channels are wired up, and how; and how the outputs
> are encoded (8 bits, 2x 8 bits, 10 bits, 2x 10 bits, etc).  Nothing
> to do with regulators or DVFS.
> 
> And the id parameter to probe() is enough to tell whether this is
> a '46 device, with extra registers and input channels, or a '47
> that's less capable (but lower power, etc).
> 
> 
[Hiremath, Vaibhav] To avoid any more confusion, I will post the patch again for review, which will give you clear picture.

> > The init sequence wouldn't matter at all for i2c_get_clientdata(),
> > since it should only kick in during probe().
> 
> 

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