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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 17:36:59 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mfd: qcom-spmi-pmic: Add support for more chips versions
From: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn@kryo.se>
To: "Ivan T. Ivanov" <iivanov@mm-sol.com>
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On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Ivan T. Ivanov <iivanov@mm-sol.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 10:11 -0800, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Ivan T. Ivanov <iivanov@mm-sol.com>
>> wrote:
>> [..]
>> > @@ -28,11 +144,27 @@ static int pmic_spmi_probe(struct spmi_device
>> > *sdev)
>> >  {
>> >         struct device_node *root = sdev->dev.of_node;
>> >         struct regmap *regmap;
>> > +       struct property *prop;
>> > +       int major, minor, ret;
>> > +       char *name, compatible[32];
>> >
>> >         regmap = devm_regmap_init_spmi_ext(sdev,
>> > &spmi_regmap_config);
>> >         if (IS_ERR(regmap))
>> >                 return PTR_ERR(regmap);
>> >
>> > +       ret = pmic_spmi_read_revid(regmap, &name, &major, &minor);
>> > +       if (!ret) {
>> > +               snprintf(compatible, ARRAY_SIZE(compatible),
>> > "qcom,%s-v%d.%d",
>> > +                        name, major, minor);
>> > +               prop = kzalloc(sizeof(*prop), GFP_KERNEL);
>> > +               if (prop) {
>> > +                       prop->name = kstrdup("compatible",
>> > GFP_KERNEL);
>> > +                       prop->value = kstrdup(compatible,
>> > GFP_KERNEL);
>> > +                       prop->length = strlen(prop->value);
>> > +                       of_update_property(root, prop);
>> > +               }
>> > +       }
>> > +
>>
>> Why would you do this?
>> What benefit does it give to patch the of_node to have a more
>> specific
>> compatible?
>
> Some of the child device drivers have to know PMIC chip revision.
>

So your plan is to have a strstr(parent->compatible, "-v2") there?

Could you be a little bit more elaborate on what you're trying to do
and which child devices that might be?

Regards,
Bjorn
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