Re: [PATCH V2 5/6] rtc: max77xxx: add RTC driver for Maxim MAX77xxx series RTC IP

[Javier Martinez Canillas]

Hello Laxman and Krzysztof,

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Monday 18 January 2016 09:57 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>
>> On 15.01.2016 10:50, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday 14 January 2016 06:50 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 14.01.2016 09:50, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>>>> The max77802 does exactly the same (BTW, these should be merged as
>>>>>> well... I'll add this to the TODO list) so I think this is necessary.
>>>>>
>>>>> How about merging max77802 to max77686 first? The only differences I
>>>>> found are:
>>>>> 1. It uses main MFD/PMIC regmap.
>>>>>      This can be solved as part of decoupling code. The driver will get
>>>>> MFD's regmap and set up its own (only on max77686). The max77802 will
>>>>> only use parent's regmap.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. It has different register address.
>>>>>      We need a register-layout/configuration structure. The logic is
>>>>> the
>>>>> same except few differences (e.g. presence of MAX77802_RTC_AE1).
>>>>>
>>>>> It may be easier to merge them now, before adding support for max77620?
>>>
>>> Agreed.
>>>
>>> When I originally posted the max77802 support, I had separate MFD,
>>> RTC, regulator and clock drivers and the feedback (IIRC) was that the
>>> MFD and clock blocks were too similar to the max77686 so I extended
>>> those drivers instead of adding new ones. But that the RTC and
>>> regulator blocks were different so a separate driver was justified...
>>> but it's true that are not that different and rtc-max77686 could be
>>> extended and rtc-max77802 removed.
>>
>> Great!
>>
>>> In fact, the ChromiumOS vendor tree has a single RTC driver for both
>>> max77686 and max77802:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/kernel/+/chromeos-3.8/drivers/rtc/rtc-max77xxx.c
>>>
>>>>> I could handle this probably next week or in the following week
>>>>> (assuming someone would test max77802 because I don't have the
>>>>> hardware).
>>>>>
>>> I could also work on this next week if you want. After all I feel
>>> guilty for the code duplication :-)
>>
>> So feel free to take that job from me. :) I will happily do the testing
>> and provide complains (I mean, comments).
>>
>
> Hi Javier,
> If you can provide the patch for moving MAX77802 to MAX77686 then I can
> create the other change to move the regmap and i2c dummy client for rtc of
> max77686 to rtc driver from core on top of your change. This will
> completely decouple the rtc driver from core and so will be easy to use for
> other chip MAX77620.
>

Ok, sounds like a plan. I'll just do the change to extend rtc-max77686
to support the max77802 rtc then and let the other change to you.

I'll work on this today once I finish other task that I'm currently working on.

> Thanks,
> Laxman
>

Best regards,
Javier