Re: [PATCH V4 8/8] cpufreq: Add Rust based cpufreq-dt driver

[Danilo Krummrich <dakr@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 06:38:02PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 11-07-24, 12:43, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> > Please just call this function `cpufreq::Registration::new`.
> > 
> > The existance of a `cpufreq::Registration` means that it's registered. Once it
> > is dropped, it's unregistered. It's the whole point of a `Registration` type
> > to bind the period of a driver being registered to the lifetime of a
> > `Registration` instance.
> > 
> > Having `Registration::register` implies a bit, that we could ever have an
> > unregistered `Registration`, which can never happen.
> > 
> > Besides that, it'd be nice to follow the same naming scheme everywhere.
> 
> Sure, ::new() looks fine.
> 
> > > +            c_str!("cpufreq-dt"),
> > > +            (),
> > > +            cpufreq::flags::NEED_INITIAL_FREQ_CHECK | cpufreq::flags::IS_COOLING_DEV,
> > > +            true,
> > > +        )?;
> > > +
> > > +        Devres::new_foreign_owned(dev.as_ref(), drv, GFP_KERNEL)?;
> > 
> > This should be called by `cpufreq::Registration` directly, otherwise it's every
> > driver's responsibility to take care of the registration lifetime.
> 
> Some details were shared in another thread [1] earlier and I understand that
> they are not very clear otherwise.
> 
> The problem is that it is not guaranteed that a struct device will be available
> to the cpufreq core all the time, to which a platform driver (or other bus) can
> be bound. And so this has to be taken care of by the individual drivers only.

I guess you are referring to the case where you want to register a CPUfreq
driver directly from `Module::init`. I see two possible options for that, with
one of them being the preference.

(1) You simply provide an additional `Registration::new_foreign_owed` function.

(2) You require drivers to always implement a "dummy" struct platform_device,
there is platform_device_register_simple() for that purpose.

I think (2) is the preferred option.

> 
> -- 
> viresh
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240620100556.xsehtd7ii25rtn7k@vireshk-i7/
>