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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:51:59 +0100
From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 04:47:56PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 02:22:02PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > A very common case is for MFDs where you've got a core driver which is
> > either being newly added or as far as external interfaces go having some

> I don't know anything about MFD subsystem, but for the subsystems (netdev, RDMA, PCI and MM)
> which I'm following, is important to get whole series.

These are chips where there's one device which has drivers in multiple
subsystems which are basically separate IPs that happen to be in the
same package (PMICs are a common case) - the drivers are generally
unrelated to each other in any meaningful sense, they're grouped as a
result of physical packaging and manufacturing concerns.

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