Re: [PATCH v3 35/36] platform/x86: intel_pmc_ipc: Convert to MFD

From: Mika Westerberg
Date: Mon Jan 20 2020 - 04:13:05 EST


On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 08:12:46AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > Well, by "library" I mean that the SCU IPC itself does not bind to
> > anything but instead it gets called by different drivers such as this
> > one passing the device pointer that is the SCU IPC device. Here for
> > example it is the platfrom device created from an ACPI description.
>
> Not keen on that at all. Why can it not be a platform device?

We also call the same library from a PCI driver (intel_scu_pcidrv.c in
this series) where the device is of type struct pci_dev.