Re: [PATCH v8 2/3] mfd: add Gateworks System Controller core driver

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2020, Tim Harvey wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 2:44 AM Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> <snip>
> > > +
> > > +static int gsc_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
> > > +{
> > > +     struct device *dev = &client->dev;
> > > +     struct gsc_dev *gsc;
> > > +     int ret;
> > > +     unsigned int reg;
> > > +
> > > +     gsc = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*gsc), GFP_KERNEL);
> > > +     if (!gsc)
> > > +             return -ENOMEM;
> > > +
> > > +     gsc->dev = &client->dev;
> > > +     gsc->i2c = client;
> > > +     i2c_set_clientdata(client, gsc);
> > > +
> > > +     gsc->bus.reg_write = gsc_regmap_regwrite;
> > > +     gsc->bus.reg_read = gsc_regmap_regread;
> >
> > Why do you need to store these in ddata?
> 
> Lee,
> 
> Thanks for the review!
> 
> I need the remap_bus* for devm_regmap_init() in the hwmon sub-module driver:
> 
> hwmon->regmap = devm_regmap_init(dev, &gsc->bus, gsc->i2c_hwmon,
> &gsc_hwmon_regmap_config);
> 
> Is there something easier I'm missing?

This is an odd setup.  I haven't seen one driver registering another
driver's Regmap call-backs before, related or otherwise.  Normally the
Regmap is setup (initialised) in the parent driver and child drivers
just make use of it.  Here it looks like you are registering 2
separate Regmaps, but using the same call-backs for both, which seems
wrong to me.

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