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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/4] New Qualcomm PMIC pin controller drivers
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On Wed, 2014-07-09 at 07:02 -0700, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 4:43 AM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Ivan T. Ivanov <iivanov@mm-sol.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2014-07-09 at 11:43 +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Ivan T. Ivanov <iivanov@mm-sol.com> wrote:

<snip>

> However, the device tree bindings are a different thing; as the
> properties used to describe the hardware doesn't relate to how we
> communicate with it I think we should be able to (and therefor should)
> use the same documentation for the two (rather 7) chips.

Agreed.

>
> >> Not sure. Björn patches cover older PMIC chips, if not mistaken, mine
> >> cover PMIC's used with APQ8074 and onward [1]. Main difference is
> >> the bus which connects them to SoC, interrupts handling, runtime
> >> pin type detection and register map.
> >
>
> Correct Ivan; we do however share the same issues related to how to do
> interrupt handling,

Yep, but do we actually need to do interrupt handling in driver?
Interrupts are handled by parent device. GPIO client drivers could
use interrupt-controller registered by core driver?

> units for properties and how to split/reuse
> between gpio and mpp. Also we have solved the pins vs groups vs
> functions slightly different, that should all be aligned I think.

Sure.

<snip>

> > Then I guess even if the chips are totally unrelated it'd be interesting
> > to have you two guys cross-review each other's drivers so the behaviour
> > is consistent across qualcomm platforms.
> >
>
> I hope we can meet somewhere in between

Sure.

Regards,
Ivan

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