From: gregkh@linuxfoundation•org (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/6] platform-drivers: msm: add single-wire serial bus interface (SSBI) driver
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 07:29:32 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130307232932.GE10304@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8yafw07ujr3.fsf@huya.qualcomm.com>
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 10:50:40AM -0800, David Brown wrote:
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation•org> writes:
>
> >> Without this device, the PMIC drivers won't work, regulators can't be
> >> turned on, and most of the other devices won't work. I can try if it
> >> can still be made a module, and it might be good at exercising the
> >> deferred probe mechanism.
> >
> > If the PMIC drivers are dependant on the symbols in this module, there
> > should not be any problems, right?
>
> The PMIC drivers directly will be, but the users of gpios/irqs and
> regulators coming from the PMIC will only depend on the generic APIs for
> this. In theory, the deferred probe should handle this, and it might
> be useful for testing.
>
> I can allow it to be a module, although I don't picture that really
> being a useful configuration.
It will allow this to get multi-arch build testing at the very least, a
very valuable thing as time goes on. You can always specify this as 'Y'
in your defconfig for your board.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-07 23:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-07 0:29 [PATCH 0/6] Qualcomm SSBI bus driver David Brown
2013-03-07 0:29 ` [PATCH 1/6] platform-drivers: msm: add single-wire serial bus interface (SSBI) driver David Brown
2013-03-07 1:30 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-07 5:20 ` David Brown
2013-03-07 6:01 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-07 10:05 ` Sekhar Nori
2013-03-07 18:45 ` David Brown
2013-03-07 18:50 ` David Brown
2013-03-07 23:29 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-03-12 6:51 ` David Brown
2013-03-12 13:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-07 0:29 ` [PATCH 2/6] SSBI: Convert SSBI to device tree David Brown
2013-03-07 0:29 ` [PATCH 3/6] ssbi: Fix exit mismatch in remove function David Brown
2013-03-07 1:30 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-07 5:21 ` David Brown
2013-03-07 0:29 ` [PATCH 4/6] ssbi: Use regular init level David Brown
2013-03-07 0:29 ` [PATCH 5/6] ARM: msm: enable SSBI driver in defconfig David Brown
2013-03-07 0:29 ` [PATCH 6/6] RFC: SSBI: Simple pm8058 test driver David Brown
2013-03-12 18:41 ` [PATCH v2 0/11] Qualcomm SSBI bus driver David Brown
2013-03-12 18:41 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] platform-drivers: msm: add single-wire serial bus interface (SSBI) driver David Brown
2013-03-12 18:41 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] fix: Use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL David Brown
2013-03-12 18:41 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] ssbi: Fix exit mismatch in remove function David Brown
2013-03-12 18:41 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] ssbi: Allow compilation as a module David Brown
2013-03-12 18:41 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] SSBI: Convert SSBI to device tree David Brown
2013-03-12 20:46 ` Stephen Boyd
2013-03-12 18:41 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] ssbi: Comment the use of udelay() David Brown
2013-03-12 18:41 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] ssbi: Use regular init level David Brown
2013-03-12 20:26 ` Stephen Boyd
2013-03-12 18:41 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] ssbi: Remove extraneous logging David Brown
2013-03-12 18:41 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] SSBI: Remove MSM_ prefix from SSBI drivers David Brown
2013-03-12 18:41 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] MAINTAINERS: add ssbi David Brown
2013-03-25 17:40 ` [PATCH v2 0/11] Qualcomm SSBI bus driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-12 20:12 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] RFC: SSBI: Simple pm8058 test driver David Brown
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