Re: [PATCH] clock: max77686: Add driver for Maxim 77686 32KHz crystal oscillator

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri Jun 01 2012 - 22:51:20 EST


On Friday 01 June 2012, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 04:13:33PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> > You should also have an of_device_id table so you can match this driver from
> > device tree definitions.
>
> There has been... some discussion on the value of doing this for MFD
> cells where the MFD cell has no reuse capability (eg, when the driver
> has very little abstraction from the top level chip binding) since we
> don't really get anything from the abstraction if the driver can't be
> reused and may limit ourselves (and others) in future.

Ok, makes sense.

Arnd
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