[PATCH v4 00/23] soc: renesas: Add R-Car RST driver for obtaining mode pin state
Geert Uytterhoeven
geert at linux-m68k.org
Wed Oct 26 04:56:29 PDT 2016
Hi Philip,
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Philipp Zabel <p.zabel at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 21.10.2016, 15:17 +0200 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven:
>> Hi Philipp, Mike, Stephen, Simon, Magnus,
>> (see questions *** below!)
>>
>> Currently the R-Car Clock Pulse Generator (CPG) drivers obtains the
>> state of the mode pins either by a call from the platform code, or
>> directly by using a hardcoded register access. This is a bit messy, and
>> creates a dependency between driver and platform code.
>>
>> This patch series converts the various Renesas R-Car clock drivers
>> and support code from reading the mode pin states using a hardcoded
>> register access to using a new minimalistic R-Car RST driver.
[...]
>> - Philip: While this is a driver for a reset-controller, currently it
>> doesn't provide any reset-controller functionality. Hence I added it
>> to drivers/soc/renesas/. Is that OK for you?
>
> Absolutely, as long as the driver isn't even a reset controller
> provider, this is the right place.
Thank you!
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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