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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 6/9] mfd: add TI LMU hardware fault monitoring driver
On Tue, 12 Jan 2016, Milo Kim wrote:

> On 01/11/2016 07:21 PM, Lee Jones wrote:
> >On Thu, 26 Nov 2015, Milo Kim wrote:
> >
> >>LM3633 and LM3697 are TI LMU MFD device.
> >>Those devices have hardware monitoring feature which detects open or
> >>short circuit case.
> >>
> >>Debugfs
> >>-------
> >> Two files are created.
> >> open_fault: check light output channel is open or not.
> >> short_fault: check light output channel is shorted or not.
> >>
> >> The driver checks the status of backlight output channels.
> >> LM3633 and LM3697 have same sequence to check channels, so common
> >> functions are used.
> >> ABI/testing document is also included.
> >>
> >>Operations
> >>----------
> >> Two devices have common control flow but register addresses are different.
> >> The structure, 'ti_lmu_reg' is used for register configuration.
> >>
> >>Event notifier
> >>--------------
> >> After fault monitoring is done, LMU device is reset. So backlight and
> >> LED device should be reinitialized. It notifies an event as soon as
> >> the monitoring is done. Then, LM3633 and LM3697 backlight and LED drivers
> >> handle this event.
> >>
> >>Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
> >>Cc: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com>
> >>Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
> >>Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
> >>Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
> >>Cc: linux-leds@vger.kernel.org
> >>Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> >>Signed-off-by: Milo Kim <milo.kim@ti.com>
> >>---
> >> .../ABI/testing/debugfs-ti-lmu-fault-monitor | 32 ++
> >> drivers/mfd/Kconfig | 10 +
> >> drivers/mfd/Makefile | 1 +
> >> drivers/mfd/ti-lmu-fault-monitor.c | 405 +++++++++++++++++++++
> >
> >I think this device is part of the MFD, rather than an MFD itself.
> >Please relocate it to somewhere more appropriate.
>
> Actually, initial patch driver was created under 'drivers/hwmon/'
> but HWMON maintainer pointed this driver doesn't include HW sensor
> feature.
> So I moved here.
>
> This driver doesn't need any subsystem infrastructure,
> 'drivers/misc/' could be OK. Does it make sense?

Either drivers/misc or drivers/platform I guess.

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