[PATCH 1/7] mfd: add imx syscon driver based on regmap

Shawn Guo shawn.guo at linaro.org
Fri Aug 24 02:43:00 EDT 2012


On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 03:18:42PM +0800, Dong Aisheng wrote:
> From: Dong Aisheng <dong.aisheng at linaro.org>
> 
> Add regmap based imx syscon driver.
> This is usually used for access misc bits in registers which does not belong
> to a specific module, for example, IOMUXC GPR and ANATOP.
> With this driver, we provide a standard API for client driver to call to
> access registers which are registered into syscon.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dong Aisheng <dong.aisheng at linaro.org>
> ---
> Currently it's just simply for IMX, however the driver really is not too
> much imx specific.
> If people want, we probably could extend it to support other platforms too.

Right.  I do not see anything IMX specific there.  We should probably
at least give the driver a generic name from day one.

-- 
Regards,
Shawn



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