[Qualcomm PM8921 MFD v2 4/6] mfd: pm8xxx-mpp: Add pm8xxx MPP driver

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 07:36:16PM -0800, Abhijeet Dharmapurikar wrote:
> Mark Brown wrote:

>> It's seems really odd that you're adding gpiolib stuff here when you've
>> also got a separate gpiolib driver.  Possibly this all shouldn't
>> actually be split up as much as it is - there's also the issue with the
>> gpiolib driver needing to peer into the interrupt controller.  It might
>> simplify the code if things were merged more.

> I dont think merging code will help here. gpio lines and mpp lines are  
> very different piece of hardware,they have a different register map and  
> different config attributes. They do fall under the generic 'gpiolib'  
> umbrella, but it seems clean to keep them separate.

Oh, so the MFPs are completely separate pins to the GPIOs controlled by
the GPIO driver?  That's unusual - might be worth clarifying that
somehow.