Re: [PATCH 1/4] ARM: rockchip: rk3288: Switch to use the proper PWM IP

From: Thierry Reding
Date: Tue Aug 26 2014 - 03:31:13 EST


On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 04:40:57PM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:
[...]
> I was doing some thinking about what to do, then. I wondered whether
> the right thing to do is not to make a "rk3288 syscon" driver that
> configures these bits, but rather to make a "rk3288" driver has access
> to the syscon. It could live in drivers/soc/rockchip/rk3288.c and we
> could give it a handle to the syscon. It could do the one-time
> initialization. It would also be a place to put special rk3288 APIs
> in cases where other drivers need similar things.
>
> What do you think?

Yes, that could work. There have been recent discussions about adding
such machine drivers that match on the top-level compatible string in
the DT.

I still think that subclassing syscon would be the cleanest solution,
though.

Thierry

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