[PATCH 03/15] mfd: Make MFD core code Device Tree and IRQ domain aware

[Samuel Ortiz]

Hi Lee,

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 03:52:49PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On 29/06/12 15:55, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
> >Hi Lee,
> >
> >On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 01:56:39PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> >>During Device Tree enablement of the ab8500 and db8500-prcmu drivers,
> >>a decision was made to omit registration through the MFD API and use
> >>Device Tree directly. However, because MFD devices have a different
> >>address space and the ab8500 and db8500 both use I2C to communicate,
> >>this causes issues with address translation during execution of
> >>of_platform_populate(). So the solution is to make the MFD core aware
> >>of Device Tree and have it assign the correct node pointers instead.
> >>
> >>To make this work the MFD core also needs to be awere of IRQ domains,
> >>as Device Tree insists on IRQ domain compatibility. So, instead of
> >>providing an irq-base via platform code, in the DT case we simply
> >>look up the IRQ domain and map to the correct virtual IRQ.
> >>
> >>Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo at linux.intel.com>
> >>Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>
> >>---
> >>  drivers/mfd/mfd-core.c   |   31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> >>  include/linux/mfd/core.h |    1 +
> >>  2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >Applied, after changing the code style a bit to make it more readable.
> >Could you please provide me with a follow up patch for documenting the
> >of_compatible MFD cell field, please ?
> 
> Yes, of course.
> 
> What exactly would you like? Something in Documentation/devicetree
> you mean? Or something else?
At least a code comment in the header file.

Cheers,
Samuel.

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