Re: [PATCH v2 06/10] rtc: max77686: Add max77802 support

[Laxman Dewangan]

On Friday 22 January 2016 01:53 AM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The MAX77686 and MAX77802 RTC IP blocks are very similar with only
> these differences:
>
> 0) The RTC registers layout and addresses are different.
>
> 1) The MAX77686 use 1 bit of the sec/min/hour/etc registers as the
>     alarm enable while MAX77802 has a separate register for that.
>
> 2) The MAX77686 RTCYEAR register valid values range is 0..99 while
>     for MAX77802 is 0..199.
>
> 3) The MAX77686 has a separate I2C address for the RTC registers
>     while the MAX77802 uses the same I2C address as the PMIC regs.
>
> 5) The minimum delay before a RTC update (16 msecs vs 200 usecs).
>
> There are separate drivers for MAX77686 and MAX77802 RTC IP blocks
> but the differences are not that big so the driver can be extended
> to support both instead of duplicating a lot of code in 2 drivers.
>
> Suggested-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@xxxxxxxxxx>