Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] MFD MAX8998/LP3974: Support LP3974 RTC

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 03:23:07PM +0900, MyungJoo Ham wrote:

> before reading it. If the device name is "lp3974-regerr", the rtc driver
> assumes that such delays are required. If the device name is "lp3974",
> the rtc driver does not. Although we have not seen LP3974s without
> requiring such delays, we assume that such LP3974s will be released
> soon (or they have done so already) and they are supported by "lp3974".

Might a bit of platform data not be a more robust way of passing this
in?  If we use the device name then it'd be difficult to handle other
issues in future.

It's a shame the affected devices can't be identified at runtime :(
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