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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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