[PATCH] Input: twl6040-vibra: Update for device tree support

Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com
Thu May 17 05:35:46 EST 2012


Hi Peter,

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 02:19:46PM +0300, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> The twl6040 DT support implementation has been changed from the originally
> planned.
> None of the child devices going to have compatible_of property which means
> that the child devices of twl6040 will be created as traditional MFD devices.
> The mfd core driver will decide (based on the DT blob) to create a device
> for the twl6040-vibra or not. If the DT blob has 'vibra' section the device
> will be created without pdata.
> In this case the vibra driver will reach up to the parent node to get the
> needed properties.

So in this case why don't you have parent parse all DT data and
construct instance of pdata for vibra driver to consume?

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry


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