Re: [PATCH 1/3] mfd: allow mfd_cell association with device treenode

From: Mark Brown
Date: Mon Oct 03 2011 - 06:29:02 EST


On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 09:40:10AM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Mark Brown
> > Right, but your modification was to the MFD core so it's going to affect
> > other devices...

> But only when they start using the newly added functionality. At this
> point, it affects nobody except vx855.

I'd really expect that if we're adding stuff to the framework then it
should be suitable for random drivers to use. To be honest I don't
really understand why you're changing the framework at all here, the
child driver is entirely specific to the parent as far as I can see.
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