Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mfd: simple-mfd-i2c: Add support for registering devices via MFD cells

[Michael Walle]

Am 2021-08-05 10:56, schrieb Lee Jones:
> More devices are cropping up requiring only Regmap initialisation and
> child registration functionality.  We currently only support that if
> all required devices are represented by their own Device Tree nodes
> complete with compatible strings.
>
> However, not everyone is happy with adding empty nodes that provide no
> additional device information into the Device Tree.
>
> Rather than have a plethora of mostly empty, function-less drivers in
> MFD, we'll support those simple cases in here instead via MFD cells.
>
> Cc: Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alistair Francis <alistair23@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>

Tested-by: Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx>

-michael