Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/4] SoC base drivers

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 20:18 +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> Tuesday, May 1, 2007, 6:01:15 PM, you wrote:
> > A while back I proposed drivers/mfd/ (multi function devices) and there
> > are a couple of drivers in there in mainline which probably fit your
> > description of SoC. The code I had once intended for there is probably
> > more ASoC related now...
> 
>         Well, while description catches the essence of course, TLA is
> far from being perfect: 1) Completely unknown; 2) can be easily
> confused with mtd.
> 
>         But it's even more funny: there *is* drivers/mfd/ already in
> mainline. I'd say that we were blind, but even you say "proposed", not
> "exists", nor anybody else brought that to attention. I'm afraid, that
> proves point 1 above ;-).

"there are a couple of drivers in there in mainline" implies I knew of
its existence ;-).

As for your second point, most users will just see "Multi Function" or
"Memory Technology" which should be different enough.

Cheers,

Richard

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