Hi Mauro,
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 01:35:01PM -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
Em 30-01-2011 21:23, Samuel Ortiz escreveu:
Hi Matti,
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 05:04:23PM +0200, Matti J. Aaltonen wrote:
Hello
I have been trying to get the WL1273 FM radio driver into the kernel for some time. It has been kind of difficult, one of the reasons is that I didn't realize I should have tried to involve all relevant maintainers to the discussion form the beginning (AsoC, Media and MFD). At Mark's suggestion I'm trying to reopen the discussion now.
The driver consists of an MFD core and two child drivers (the audio codec and the V4L2 driver). And the question is mainly about the role of the MFD driver: the original design had the IO functions in the core. Currently the core is practically empty mainly because Mauro very strongly wanted to have “everything” in the V4L2 driver.
What was Mauro main concerns with having the IO part in the core ? A lot of MFD drivers are going that path already.
My concerns is that the V4L2-specific part of the code should be at drivers/media. I prefer that the specific MFD I/O part to be at drivers/mfd, just like the other drivers.
Agreed, but it seems that's not the case currently. Would you be ok with Matti refactoring those 2 drivers a bit so that the actual core I/O parts should be handled by the MFD driver ?
Cheers, Samuel.