[PATCH v2 02/09] mfd: support 88pm8606 in 860x driver

Samuel Ortiz sameo at linux.intel.com
Fri Jan 8 06:46:15 EST 2010


On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 10:39:10PM -0500, Haojian Zhuang wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Samuel Ortiz <sameo at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > Hi Haojian,
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 08:11:22AM -0500, Haojian Zhuang wrote:
> >> From c5f9ccd5b1f2ce57b9e10b7e2b6c134fc8116f29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >> From: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang at marvell.com>
> >> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:05:28 -0500
> >> Subject: [PATCH] mfd: support 88pm8606 in 860x driver
> >>
> >> 88PM8606 and 88PM8607 are two discrete chips used for power management.
> >> Hardware designer can use them together or only one of them according to
> >> requirement.
> >>
> >> There's some logic tightly linked between these two chips. For example, USB
> >> charger driver needs to access both chips by I2C interface.
> >>
> >> Now share one driver to these two devices. Only one I2C client is identified
> >> in platform init data. If another chip is also used, user should mark it in
> >> companion_addr field of platform init data. Then driver could create another
> >> I2C client for the companion chip.
> >>
> >> All I2C operations are accessed by 860x-i2c driver. In order to support both
> >> I2C client address, the read/write API is changed in below.
> >>
> >> reg_read(client, offset)
> >> reg_write(client, offset, data)
> >>
> >> The benefit is that client drivers only need one kind of read/write API. I2C
> >> and MFD driver can be shared in both 8606 and 8607.
> > After merging this patch, I get many drivers/regulator/88pm8607.c build
> > failures. Could you please include fixes for this driver with this patch, and
> > also update patch #9 accordingly ?
> >
> 
> Update these patches. #9 is merged into #2. #3 is also changed.
All right, this patchset finally made it :) Thanks for your effort.

Cheers,
Samuel.

 
> Thanks
> Haojian



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