> >>>>>>The TPS65917 chip is a power management IC for Portable Navigation Systems > >>>>>>and Tablet Computing devices. It contains the following components: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> - Regulators. > >>>>>> - Over Temperature warning and Shut down. > >>>>>> > >>>>>>This patch adds support for tps65917 mfd device. At this time only > >>>>>>the regulator functionality is made available. > >>>>>> > >>>>>>Signed-off-by: Keerthy <j-keerthy@xxxxxx> > >>>>>>--- > >>>>>>v3 Changes: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> * Header file formating > >>>>>> * Changed the cache_type to REGCACHE_RBTREE > >>>>>> * removed unnecessary code > >>>>>> * Corrected documentation style > >>>>>> * Added pm_power_off function > >>>>>> > >>>>>> v2 Changes: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> * Added volatile register check as some of the registers > >>>>>> in the set are volatile. > >>>>>>drivers/mfd/Kconfig | 12 + > >>>>>> drivers/mfd/Makefile | 1 + > >>>>>> drivers/mfd/tps65917.c | 594 +++++++++++++++++ > >>>>>> include/linux/mfd/tps65917.h | 1485 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >>>>>> 4 files changed, 2092 insertions(+) > >>>>>> create mode 100644 drivers/mfd/tps65917.c > >>>>>> create mode 100644 include/linux/mfd/tps65917.h > >[...] > > > >>>>>>+ ret = regmap_read(tps65917->regmap[slave], addr, ®); > >>>>>>+ if (ret) > >>>>>>+ goto err_irq; > >>>>>>+ }i > >>>>>What does the read do? You're not doing anything with the value. > >>>>This pad1 and pad2 stuff is not needed. I will remove this. > >>>Then why is it in here? > >>> > >>>Did you copy this code from somewhere, if so, where? > >>> > >>>Okay, I just answered my own question. There is so much common code > >>>in between this and palmas, there is no way I'm going to accept this > >>>driver. Please merge it in with the palmas driver! > >>> > >>The chip is more like a subset of palmas with lot of register offset changes > >>and register bit field changes. Adding this would make it clumsy. > >>There could > >>be lot of checks. That is why i chose to write a new driver. > >> > >>Palmas driver already supports palmas variants and tps659038. Merging > >>this would mean more and more checks :-/. > >Then find an elegant way of representing the variants. I'm not > >prepared to carry that much duplicated code in MFD. It's already > >overladened and in need of an overhaul. This will exacerbate the > >matter. > > > > Okay. I am working on that. Thanks. -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
