Re: [PATCH] of: When constructing the bus id consider assigned-addresses as well

[Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:20:54 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 02:03:16PM +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:02:40 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> wrote:
> > > 'assigned-addresses' is used for certain PCI device type nodes in
> > > lieu of 'reg',  since this is enforced by of/address.c, have
> > > of_device_make_bus_id look there as well.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
> > 
> > If it is a PCI device, then of_device_make_bus_id() shouldn't come into
> > play. PCI devices already have their own naming scheme. Only
> > platform_bus device creation uses of_device_make_bus_id(). What am I
> > missing?
> 
> In my embedded case I have a complex PCI-E connected SOC device.
> 
> This is modeled in OF by having a PCI-E bus, a PCI-E device node, and
> then all of the SOC devices (I2C, GPIO, drivers, etc) placed under the
> PCI-E device node.
> 
> The PCI driver that matches the device just turns it on and calls
> of_platform_populate(..) with its own node as an argument.
> 
> So of_device_make_bus_id isn't called on a PCI-E device node, it is
> called on the platform_device children of that node, and due to the
> way the other code works, and what the OF rules seem to be, those
> childen all use assigned-addresses. Without this patch the code just
> assigns monotonic ids to those nodes.

Hmmm. okay that makes sense, but something still isn't quite right. So
of_translate_address should take care of drilling down through the bus
layers, and when it gets to the PCI node it /should/ use
of_bus_pci_translate to handle traversing down to the parent node (which
uses the 'assigned-addresses' for the pci node.

However, in your case, of_device_make_bus_id() isn't using that code
path and you're getting a generic name instead (with no relation to the
device address).  Correct?

If that is the case, then the solution is to figure out why
of_translate_address() doesn't currently handle your situation and fix
it. It is not a good idea to add assigned-addresses specific parsing
code to that function since that won't work for any of the other bus
types.

g.