Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Mar 2011 15:22:42 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [Qualcomm PM8921 MFD 2/6] mfd: pm8xxx: Add irq support |
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On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 08:38:03PM -0800, Abhijeet Dharmapurikar wrote: > Mark Brown wrote:
> >Is it really useful to register a struct device purely for the interrupt > >controller? I'd have expected this to be core functionality of the > >device. The fact that you need to store the device at all is a bit odd > >too as you're using the MFD API.
> This design is slightly different from other MFD drivers. > I separated the interrupt from the core because the interrupt > implementation for different Qualcomm pmics remains the same. On > 8660 FFA boards for example, we have two pmic chips that have the > same interrupt subdevice implementation (the number of interrupts > managed by each is different). I didn't want to duplicate the exact > code in the core driver - hence a separate interrupt driver.
Could you deal with this with a library instead?
> With that in mind, the driver has following functions > pm8xxxx_read_root > pm8xxxx_read_master > pm8xxxx_read_block
> Do you still think I should change the name?
I'd suggest adding an _irq in there.
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