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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH RESEND 0/3] UP Squared board drivers
On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 09:50:06AM +0100, Javier Arteaga wrote:
> [linux-kernel correctly Cc'd on the series now. Sorry for the noise.]
>
> Hi all,
>
> This series adds platform support for AAEON's UP Squared, a x86 SBC
> based on Apollo Lake [1]. Specifically, it enables control for the board
> pin headers and for the LEDs, as both of these features are only
> available behind a FPGA-based platform controller.
>
> This is structured around a MFD driver that provides a regmap interface
> to that platform controller to each MFD cell.
>
> The series is carved out from an out-of-tree support patchset, initially
> written by Dan O'Donovan for the original UP Board [2] and then extended
> through the past year to support new entries in the lineup (UP Board, UP
> Squared and UP Core) [3].
>
> Here we only submit support for UP Squared to simplify review. Still,
> the driver is designed so that it can easily gain support for the other
> boards.
>
> Questions:
>
> * Is MFD the right fit for the platform controller?
> The intention here is to encapsulate the custom GPIO-bitbanged control
> protocol by sharing the regmap between the drivers.
>
> * Is our use of two chained pinctrls (in patch 3/3) valid?

There are few minor comments but other than that, to me this looks like
a reasonable approach.

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