Subject: [PATCH 1/7] mfd: add imx syscon driver based on regmap

From: [email-masked] (Mark Brown)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:06:47 +0100

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 03:26:30PM +0800, Dong Aisheng wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:02:41AM +0800, Mark Brown wrote:

> > It'd be good to provide a way of retrieving the regmap so that drivers
> > for subsystems with generic regmap code could use the framework features
> > (regulator is one example that I just mentioned in my other mail).

> Do you mean something like:
> regmap = syscon_regmap_dev_lookup(np, "fsl,anatop");
> regmap_write(regmap, reg, val);

> Then drivers can use generic regmap framework features rather than depend
> on what imx-syscon implemented, is that correct?

Yes, this is mainly for cases where the subsystem has helper functions
that can work with regmap.
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