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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.

  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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