Re: [PATCH v3 2/8] mfd: Add atmel-st driver

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2015, Alexandre Belloni wrote:

> 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;

Not to my knowledge.  There are lots of single chip devices which have
multiple compatible strings.  What's stopping you from representing
this device under the syscfg node?

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Lee Jones
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