Re: [PATCH V3 1/3] vfio, platform: add support for ACPI while detecting the reset driver

[Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>]

On 3/29/2016 8:44 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>  can certainly drop patch #3 and push the reset responsibility to acpi.
>> > 
>> > I never liked having a fragmented sw design across multiple drivers.
>> > 
>> > I need something for patch #1. Compatible is a DT property not ACPI.but 
>> > then, I won't have a reset driver anymore.
>> > 
>> > If we think about how vfio pci works, we pass the pci vendor and device 
>> > id to new_id file to find out which pci device needs to be pass thru.
>> > 
>> > I can go to a similar route. This time we pass the object id through 
>> > new_id and I call reset method on this object.
>> > 
>> > Let me know what you think?
> It would certainly be nice to make it work more like PCI VFIO does
> here, where you can assign any device as long as it has an IOMMU
> (and a _rst method in this case).
> 
> 	Arnd

I looked at the code today. This doesn't have to be as convoluted as PCI is. 
The VFIO platform driver already has a pointer to the actual object in
vdev->pdev.dev.

This is really as simple as calling _RST method on the passed oject at the last
step below. We don't need to create a dynamic list like PCI does. 

This is how the driver gets called. 

echo vfio-platform | tee -a /sys/bus/platform/devices/QCOM8061:00/driver_override
echo QCOM8061:00 | tee -a  /sys/bus/platform/devices/QCOM8061:00/driver/unbind
echo QCOM8061:00 |tee -a /sys/bus/platform/drivers_probe

I'll post a patch as soon as I test it.

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Sinan Kaya
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