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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 2/6] mfd: mp2629: Add support for mps battery charger
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From:   saravanan sekar <sravanhome@gmail.com>
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Date:   Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:04:15 +0200
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On 24/04/20 12:53 pm, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, saravanan sekar wrote:
>
>> Hi Lee,
>>
>> On 24/04/20 11:37 am, Lee Jones wrote:
>>> On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, saravanan sekar wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Lee,
>>>>
>>>> On 24/04/20 9:18 am, Lee Jones wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 15 Apr 2020, Saravanan Sekar wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> mp2629 is a highly-integrated switching-mode battery charge management
>>>>>> device for single-cell Li-ion or Li-polymer battery.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Add MFD core enables chip access for ADC driver for battery readings,
>>>>>> and a power supply battery-charger driver
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Saravanan Sekar <sravanhome@gmail.com>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>     drivers/mfd/Kconfig        |  9 ++++
>>>>>>     drivers/mfd/Makefile       |  2 +
>>>>>>     drivers/mfd/mp2629.c       | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>     include/linux/mfd/mp2629.h | 19 +++++++++
>>>>>>     4 files changed, 116 insertions(+)
>>>>>>     create mode 100644 drivers/mfd/mp2629.c
>>>>>>     create mode 100644 include/linux/mfd/mp2629.h
>>>>> How is this driver registered?
>>>>>
>>>>> Looks like it has device tree support.  Is there another way?
>>>> Yes, only using device tree
>>> Then how about using 'simple-mfd' and 'syscon'?
>>>
>>> Then you can omit this driver completely.
>> The exception is to support for non device tree platform as well, but I have
>> tested only for ARM device tree platform.
> Is that a reality though?
>
> How else do you see this realistically being registered?
>
I understand that acpi related device table are not covered here, well I 
don't have to platform to test so.
If you ask me to cover acpi related table, I can do but hard to test.
>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/Kconfig b/drivers/mfd/Kconfig
>>>>>> index 3c547ed575e6..85be799795aa 100644
>>>>>> --- a/drivers/mfd/Kconfig
>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/mfd/Kconfig
>>>>>> @@ -434,6 +434,15 @@ config MFD_MC13XXX_I2C
>>>>>>     	help
>>>>>>     	  Select this if your MC13xxx is connected via an I2C bus.
>>>>>> +config MFD_MP2629
>>>>>> +	tristate "Monolithic power system MP2629 ADC and Battery charger"
>>>>>> +	depends on I2C
>>>>>> +	select REGMAP_I2C
>>>>>> +	help
>>>>>> +	  Select this option to enable support for monolithic power system
>>>>>> +	  battery charger. This provides ADC, thermal, battery charger power
>>>>>> +	  management functions on the systems.