On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 11:44:49AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 03:33:27PM +0200, Michael Grzeschik wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 01:00:43PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > > > syscon is one potential thing here but it seems odd for the sort of > > > hardware that syscon handles to be a good fit for regmap-irq. > > > We have the special case that we use the syscon as the basic driver > > underneath some subdevices that vary in function. We have six arcnet > > controllers sitting side by side in an 8 byte offset. And after them we > > have the next small memory windows for an reset controller and one > > interrupt controller which the other devices reference. > > Why is this a syscon and not a MFD? It sounds exactly like a MFD to me, > syscon is more for cases where things are really jumbled together (even > in single registers) but that sounds like a bunch of separate register > ranges for separate devices that happen to be very close together in > address.
You are right. I will rewrite it to MFD. Thanks, Michael -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 |
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