Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 07/19] timberdale: mfd_cell is now implicitly available to drivers | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Date | Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:07:08 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 19:51 +0200, Samuel Ortiz wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 06:16:49PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > So, adding an MFD cell pointer to the device structure allows us to cleanly > > > pass both pieces of information, while keeping all the MFD sub drivers > > > independant from the MFD core if they want/can. > > > > Why isn't an MFD the parent of its component devices? > It actually is. How would that help here ?
I was thinking you could encode the component address in the platform_device name (just as the bus address is the name of a normal bus device). That plus the parent device pointer would be sufficient information to look up the mfd_cell.
Ben.
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