[PATCH v3 2/8] mfd: Add atmel-st driver
Alexandre Belloni
alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com
Tue Jan 20 07:05:01 PST 2015
On 20/01/2015 at 09:47:39 +0000, Lee Jones wrote :
> > > This driver looks pretty pointless. Why can't you request the sysconf
> > > registers from within the drivers themselves?
> > >
> >
> > How would you probe the watchdog driver then? Would you had the
> > "atmel,at91rm9200-st" compatible there?
> >
> > At some point in time, we should add the reset driver, would you also
> > match it on "atmel,at91rm9200-st"?
> >
> > I'm fine with that as this allows to avoid the mfd driver.
>
> I'm sorry, I don't follow. Why can't each driver have their own
> compatible strings?
>
The same IP provides a clocksource, a watchdog and is also the reset
controller. I think that the DT guidelines requires that the DT
describes the hardware and so use one compatible for that IP;
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