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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 17:25:15 +0100
From: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] perf: cavium: Support memory controller PMU
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On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 17:46:23 +0200
Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@caviumnetworks.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 04:17:11PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> > How about adding a soc specific (wrapper) driver for the memory controller, which
> > could use the PCI id and trigger EDAC and PMU drivers (based on what is
> > selected by configs)  ?  
> 
> Sounds good to me. Is there a driver that already does this?
Sounds like a classic MFD (multifunction device). There are quite a few pci
devices to be found under drivers/mfd/ than may provide some inspiration.

Jonathan
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