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Date:   Wed, 25 Aug 2021 17:13:00 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/3] regulator: core: Add regulator_lookup_list
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On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 06:42:30PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 04:27:35PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Yeah, that or something like a generalized version of it which lets a
> > separate quirk file like they seem to have register the data to insert -

> Let's also remember that we have to handle not just regulators, but also
> GPIOs and clocks. And I'm pretty sure there will be more. We could have
> a mechanism specific to the tps68470 driver to pass platform data from
> the board file to the driver, and replicate that mechanism in different
> drivers (for other regulators, clocks and GPIOs), but I really would
> like to avoid splitting the DMI-conditioned platform data in those
> drivers directly. I'd like to store all the init data for a given
> platform in a single "board" file.

Right, that's the more general bit I'm suggesting.

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