Re: [PATCHv1] rtc: bcm-iproc: Add support for Broadcom iproc rtc

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>]

On Wednesday 04 March 2015 14:40:13 Arun Ramamurthy wrote:
> On 15-03-04 02:21 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Thursday 12 February 2015 14:17:41 Arun Ramamurthy wrote:
> >> Hi Arnd
> >>
> >> My apologies for the late reply, I was moved to other work items. I
> >> wanted to get more clarification on the syscon issue so that I can
> >> submit the next patch set. If I understand correctly, you would like
> >> me to move the CRMU logic to a new driver under mfd/ and use the syscon
> >> api calls in my rtc driver? Thanks
> >
> > It depends a lot on what's in there, I can best advise you if you
> > have some form of register list.
> >
> > A common approach would be to not have a driver for the crmu at all,
> > but just mark it as syscon, and have the other drivers either reference
> > the syscon node through a phandle, or create them as childrem of
> > the syscon node. The latter case makes most sense if all uses of
> > the crmu have no other MMIO registers.
> >
> 
> Thank you Arnd, I am going to follow the approach of adding a child node 
> to the syscon node. Several other driver use other registers in the CRMU 
> so I think the child node approach makes the most sense.

Just to be sure we have the same understanding: of those other drivers,
do you think that they would use only CRMU registers, or could there
be drivers that have both CRMU as well as other MMIO registers?

	Arnd