ST-Ericsson AB8500 Mixed Signal Power Management chip

modulename: ab8500-core.ko

configname: CONFIG_AB8500_CORE

Linux Kernel Configuration
└─>Device Drivers
└─>Multifunction device drivers
└─>ST-Ericsson AB8500 Mixed Signal Power Management chip
In linux kernel since version 2.6.35 (release Date: 2010-08-01)  
Select this option to enable access to AB8500 power management
chip. This connects to U8500 either on the SSP/SPI bus (deprecated
since hardware version v1.0) or the I2C bus via PRCMU. It also adds
the irq_chip parts for handling the Mixed Signal chip events.
This chip embeds various other multimedia funtionalities as well.

source code:
selects
CONFIG_MFD_CORE

depends
CONFIG_ABX500_CORE
CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS
CONFIG_MFD_SUPPORT

is selected by
CONFIG_AB8500_USB

is depended by
CONFIG_ARCH_U8500