Re: [patch 3/4] MFD: Remove unnecessary fields if mfd_cell structure.

From: Dmitry
Date: Wed Jul 09 2008 - 07:09:26 EST


2008/7/9 Ben Dooks <ben-linux@xxxxxxxxx>:
> The enable,disable,suspend and resume entry in the struct mfd_cell
> do not seem to be necessary as they should be handled by the
> platform driver that the device created has bound to.

NAK. It's used e.g. by the tmio-nand driver. These fields provide easy
way to support
enhanced power management, etc.

>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Index: linux-2.6.26-rc9-next20080709/include/linux/mfd/core.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.26-rc9-next20080709.orig/include/linux/mfd/core.h 2008-07-09 10:44:45.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.26-rc9-next20080709/include/linux/mfd/core.h 2008-07-09 10:45:06.000000000 +0100
> @@ -23,12 +26,6 @@
> */
> struct mfd_cell {
> const char *name;
> -
> - int (*enable)(struct platform_device *dev);
> - int (*disable)(struct platform_device *dev);
> - int (*suspend)(struct platform_device *dev);
> - int (*resume)(struct platform_device *dev);
> -
> void *driver_data; /* driver-specific data */
>
> /*
>
> --
>



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With best wishes
Dmitry
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