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> Wow, this driver is going to need a lot of work.

I'm open to reworking this 5 times if need be :)

>
> But before we get going, how many sub-devices does this have?

This is a custom piece of h/w which exposes two anybus-S slots, plus a
power readout in sysfs, I wasn't quite sure if mfd is the right
abstraction for this.