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

[Lee Jones]

On Wed, 22 Jan 2020, Mika Westerberg wrote:

> 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.

Sounds good.

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