Re: [PATCH v4 37/38] platform/x86: intel_pmc_ipc: Convert to MFD

From: Mika Westerberg
Date: Wed Jan 22 2020 - 09:45:32 EST


On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 01:27:57PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > Which type of device you suggest here? And which bus it should be
> > registered to? I think we can make this create a platform_device but
> > then we would need to do that from the PCI driver as well which seems
> > unnecessary since we already have the struct pci_dev.
>
> What kind of device is it?

It is either part of an ACPI device (platform_device) or a PCI device
depending on the platform.

> Refrain from using platform device, unless it is one please.

OK.

Greg suggested making the SCU IPC functionality a class and I think it
fits here nicely so I'm going to try that next if nobody objects. I'll
send the first cleanup patches separately.