Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:05:51 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [Regulator RFC] da903x: Where should usb charge pump support go? |
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:48:41PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > Mark Brown wrote:
> > For WM8350 this is implemented as a device-specific function in the > > driver core which is then used by other drivers to export the > > information to relevant subsystems.
> Seems a sensible option. Can always put a hwmon driver on top of that > if people want the nice userspace interfaces etc.
If it's anything like WM8350 you'll end up with multiple things sitting on top of it.
> That's probably me anyway (industrialio), it's stalled whilst I switch > my test platform to this driver and isn't really suitable for this
Ah, yes - so it is.
> (unless someone wants to abuse the auxiliary adc inputs for general > purpose stuff).
My experience suggests that at least some designs will want to do that but if you go with the internal-only support with multiple clients they can always write a driver on top of that if/when they need it.
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