Re: [EXTERNAL][PATCH v15 04/13] mfd/syscon: Add device_node_to_regmap()

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 6:55 PM Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Lee, Arnd,
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 01:16:06PM -0400, Paul Cercueil wrote:
> > device_node_to_regmap() is exactly like syscon_node_to_regmap(), but it
> > does not check that the node is compatible with "syscon", and won't
> > attach the first clock it finds to the regmap.
> >
> > The rationale behind this, is that one device node with a standard
> > compatible string "foo,bar" can be covered by multiple drivers sharing a
> > regmap, or by a single driver doing all the job without a regmap, but
> > these are implementation details which shouldn't reflect on the
> > devicetree.
>
> Does this looks like a good path forwards to you? Its use in this case
> is described by Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/ingenic,tcu.txt
> in patch 3 of the series.
>
> If you're OK with it an ack would be appreciated so I can take the
> series through mips-next, otherwise I guess we'd need to go back to the
> v14 approach.

Yes, I guess this is ok, sorry for missing the submission earlier.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>