Re: [RFC PATCH v1 0/2] platform: toradex: Add toradex embedded controller
From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Mon Mar 17 2025 - 06:24:29 EST
On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 12:14:33PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 11:08:56AM +0100, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 04:08:14PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > > On 13-Mar-25 3:43 PM, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
...
> > > 1. A drivers/mfd/ MFD driver with the regmap stuff,
> > > registering "board-reset" and "gpio" cells
> >
> > So, we considered the idea of going with an MFD driver, but looking at
> > drivers/platform/cznic, that is doing something relatively close to what
> > we are doing (just more feature rich, as of now), drivers/platform/
> > seemed a better fit.
> >
> > I am not 100% sure what's Andy opinion on this topic, from what I can
> > understand his concerns are about the toradex directory (that we'll get
> > rid of), not the drivers/platform/ parent you are concerned about.
>
> Yes, my point is to have this inside existing folder whatever you decide
> with the maintainers of the respective subsystem to be.
But if you have more than one module, it might be still good to have at some
level, and drivers/platform might be too low for it (too broad).
So, either path/to/foo/toradex.c, or path/to/foo/toradex/*.[ch].
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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko