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Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/19] timberdale: mfd_cell is now implicitly available
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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
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On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 19:51 +0200, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 06:16:49PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > So, adding an MFD cell pointer to the device structure allows us to cleanly
> > > pass both pieces of information, while keeping all the MFD sub drivers
> > > independant from the MFD core if they want/can.
> > 
> > Why isn't an MFD the parent of its component devices?
> It actually is. How would that help here ?

I was thinking you could encode the component address in the
platform_device name (just as the bus address is the name of a normal
bus device).  That plus the parent device pointer would be sufficient
information to look up the mfd_cell.

Ben.

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