From: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Move and rename HP watchdog timer driver
Thread-Topic: [PATCH 1/2] Move and rename HP watchdog timer driver
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Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 05:51:41 +0000
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On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 22:43 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:

> If that is the case, wouldn't it make more sense to have separate drivers,
> one per functionality, plus an mfd driver to bind them all together ?

It'd be an option, but I don't think there's a huge benefit - the
functionality's reasonably related and there's no real internal bus
architecture on the device.

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Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
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