Whilst describing a device and not a bus, simple-mfd is modelled on
simple-bus where child nodes are iterated and registered as platform
devices. Some complex devices, e.g. the Aspeed LPC controller, can
benefit from address space mapping such that child nodes can use the
regs property to describe their resource offsets within the
multi-function device.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
This defines a new compatible option for MFD devices "simple-mfd" that will
make the OF core spawn child devices for all subnodes of that MFD device.
It is optional but handy for things like syscon and possibly other
simpler MFD devices.
Since there was no file to put the documentation in, I took this opportunity
to make a small writeup on MFD devices and add the compatible definition
there.
Suggested-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Devicetree <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Cc: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Andrew Jeffery