[PATCHv3 1/4] mfd: smsc: Add support for smsc gpio io/keypad driver

[ABRAHAM, KISHON VIJAY]

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Mark Brown
<broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 05:00:06PM +0530, ABRAHAM, KISHON VIJAY wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Sourav Poddar <sourav.poddar at ti.com> wrote:
>
> Delete irrelevant context from your replies, it makes it much easier to
> find new text.
>
>> > +static int smsc_i2c_remove(struct i2c_client *i2c)
>> > +{
>> > +       struct smsc *smsc = i2c_get_clientdata(i2c);
>> > +
>> > +       mfd_remove_devices(smsc->dev);
>
>> IMO, this should have resulted in an abort (hint: see
>> mfd_remove_devices_fn()). Trying to do mfd_remove_devices without
>> mfd_add_devices(). Use device_for_each_child here to remove the
>> device.
>
> No, this is not at all sensible - if there's an mfd_remove_devices()
> function we really ought to be able to use it to remove the children.
> If we can't do that we should fix the API usability, not open code the
> same stuff in every user.

What makes more sense to me is extend mfd_add_devices to create child
devices from dt data. Then for removing devices, one can use
mfd_remove_devices().

Thanks
Kishon