On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 05:11:06PM +0000, Opensource [Adam Thomson] wrote:
It's limiting in as much as it's insisting on a required order for initialisation which shouldn't be there. As said previously they're 2 separate devices in one package, with no internal connection, so either could be instantiated first. It should be open to the user to decide on this based on their platform and needs.
With your approach, it is more work for no gain here, and holds us to a logical representation which doesn't fit with the device in question (which is not really an MFD, it's two devices, one of which is an MFD, the PMIC).
I'm having a hard time understanding this as a practical limitation, can you be more specific about the cases where this would present a noticable problem? It'd at least ensure that the configuration where the whole device is present gets tested to some extent, though that doesn't seem likely to break again.