On Jun 18, 2014, at 10:53 AM, Kevin Hilman <khil...@linaro.org> wrote:
> Bjorn Andersson <bj...@kryo.se> writes: > >> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Kevin Hilman <khil...@linaro.org> wrote: >>> +Paul Walmsley >>> >>> Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.anders...@sonymobile.com> writes: >>> >>>> This series adds a regulator driver for the Resource Power Manager found in >>>> Qualcomm 8660, 8960 and 8064 based devices. >>>> >>>> The RPM driver exposes resources to its child devices, that can be >>>> accessed to >>>> implement drivers for the regulators, clocks and bus frequency control >>>> that's >>>> owned by the RPM in these devices. >>>> >>>> Changes since v2: >>>> - Fix copy-paste error in dt binding >>>> - Correct incomplete move from mfd to soc >>>> - Correct const mistake in regulator driver >>>> >>>> Changes since v1: >>>> - Moved rpm driver to drivers/soc >>> >>> I'm not sure I follow the motivation for having this under drivers/soc? >>> >> Hi Kevin, >> >> I've made the argument that to me this is conceptually a black box >> handling regulators, clocks and other stuff; hence similar to a PMIC, >> which would fit nicely into drivers/mfd. >> >> I still think this is the case and now that I look back I didn't get >> any pushback from Lee Jones so maybe the move was premature? > > Yes, IMO, the move was premature, but hopefully the drivers/soc folks > can chime in an clarify the criteria for inclusion there. > > Kevin I dont agree, I think having this in drivers/soc means that we can clearly go through drivers/soc in the future and look for patterns across SoCs that should be re-factored. Where MFD seems like its become the new drivers misc. - k -- Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
