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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> To: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>, Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@nokia.com>, Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/19] twl4030: mfd_cell is now implicitly available to drivers Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 09:31:54 +0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20110203093154.GC21591@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20110202230326.167fe873@queued.net> On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 11:03:26PM -0800, Andres Salomon wrote: > Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote: > > Then they are doing it incorrectly. One possible way is to have parent > > device carry relevant data in its drvdata and have children get it > > from there. > I believe some drivers are even using the parent device already. See > drivers/leds/leds-mc13783.c, for example, whose parent device drvdata > is used to pass around a struct mc13783 to its children. Sounds > like a possibility, will need to look into it further. That's the current best practice approach.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-03 9:31 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2011-02-03 3:54 [RFC] [PATCH 0/19] mfd sharing support Andres Salomon 2011-02-03 3:55 ` [PATCH 01/19] mfd-core: unconditionally add mfd_cell to every platform_device Andres Salomon 2011-02-03 3:58 ` [PATCH 02/19] jz4740: mfd_cell is now implicitly available to drivers Andres Salomon 2011-02-03 8:09 ` Jean Delvare 2011-02-03 4:01 ` [PATCH 03/19] ab3550: " Andres Salomon 2011-02-04 8:20 ` Mattias Wallin 2011-02-03 4:03 ` [PATCH 04/19] ab3100: " Andres Salomon 2011-02-03 12:52 ` Linus Walleij 2011-02-03 4:04 ` [PATCH 05/19] asic3: " Andres Salomon 2011-02-03 4:05 ` [PATCH 06/19] htc-pasic3: " Andres Salomon 2011-02-03 4:08 ` [PATCH 07/19] timberdale: " Andres Salomon 2011-03-31 23:05 ` Grant Likely 2011-04-01 11:20 ` Samuel Ortiz 2011-04-01 17:47 ` Andres Salomon 2011-04-01 17:56 ` Grant Likely 2011-04-01 18:00 ` Grant Likely 2011-04-01 23:52 ` Samuel Ortiz 2011-04-01 23:58 ` Grant Likely 2011-04-02 0:10 ` Andres Salomon 2011-04-04 10:03 ` Samuel Ortiz 2011-04-05 3:04 ` Grant Likely 2011-04-06 15:23 ` Samuel Ortiz 2011-04-06 15:58 ` Greg KH 2011-04-06 17:05 ` Samuel Ortiz 2011-04-06 17:16 ` Ben Hutchings 2011-04-06 17:51 ` Samuel Ortiz 2011-04-06 18:07 ` Ben Hutchings 2011-04-06 17:56 ` Greg KH 2011-04-06 18:25 ` Andres Salomon 2011-04-06 18:38 ` Greg KH 2011-04-07 8:04 ` Grant Likely 2011-04-06 18:47 ` Samuel Ortiz 2011-04-06 18:59 ` Felipe Balbi 2011-04-06 22:09 ` Greg KH 2011-04-07 8:09 ` Felipe Balbi 2011-04-07 13:40 ` Samuel Ortiz 2011-04-07 14:35 ` Grant Likely 2011-04-07 15:03 ` Samuel Ortiz 2011-04-07 18:06 ` Grant Likely 2011-04-07 16:24 ` Grant Likely 2011-04-01 18:26 ` Samuel Ortiz 2011-02-03 4:09 ` [PATCH 08/19] t7166xb: " Andres Salomon 2011-02-03 4:11 ` [PATCH 09/19] wl1273: " Andres Salomon 2011-02-03 4:12 ` [PATCH 10/19] sh_mobile_sdhi: " Andres Salomon 2011-02-03 4:13 ` [PATCH 11/19] tc6393xb: " Andres Salomon 2011-02-03 4:15 ` [PATCH 12/19] twl4030: " Andres Salomon 2011-02-03 6:05 ` Dmitry Torokhov 2011-02-03 6:39 ` Andres Salomon 2011-02-03 6:53 ` Dmitry Torokhov 2011-02-03 7:03 ` Andres Salomon 2011-02-03 9:31 ` Mark Brown [this message] 2011-02-05 2:39 ` Andres Salomon 2011-02-05 3:25 ` Andres Salomon 2011-02-03 12:23 ` Peter Ujfalusi 2011-02-04 10:41 ` Uwe Kleine-König 2011-02-03 4:16 ` [PATCH 13/19] tc6387xb: " Andres Salomon 2011-02-03 4:17 ` [PATCH 14/19] janz: " Andres Salomon 2011-02-03 4:20 ` [PATCH 15/19] mc13xxx: " Andres Salomon 2011-02-04 9:34 ` Uwe Kleine-König 2011-02-04 10:13 ` Uwe Kleine-König 2011-02-04 10:16 ` Andres Salomon 2011-02-03 4:21 ` [PATCH 16/19] mfd-core: drop platform_data/data_size from core mfd_cell struct Andres Salomon 2011-02-03 4:22 ` [PATCH 17/19] mfd-core: add refcounting support to mfd_cells Andres Salomon 2011-02-03 4:23 ` [PATCH 18/19] mfd-core: add platform_device sharing support for mfd Andres Salomon 2011-02-03 4:26 ` [PATCH 19/19] cs5535-mfd: add sharing for acpi/pms cells Andres Salomon
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