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Date:   Tue, 20 Jul 2021 16:23:51 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To:     Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/6] mfd: sy7636a: Initial commit
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On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 03:53:25PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Jul 2021, Alistair Francis wrote:

> > +static const struct mfd_cell sy7636a_cells[] = {
> > +	{ .name = "sy7636a-regulator", },
> > +	{ .name = "sy7636a-temperature", },
> > +	{ .name = "sy7636a-thermal", },
> > +};

> If you put these in the Device Tree, you can use "simple-mfd-i2c"

At least the regulator probably shouldn't be - this is just a Linux
specific grouping of devices, it's not really directly a block in the
hardware in a way that's platform independent.

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