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* [PATCH RFC v2 0/8] component helper improvements
@ 2014-06-24 19:28 Russell King - ARM Linux
  2014-06-24 19:28 ` [PATCH RFC v2 1/8] component: fix missed cleanup in case of devres failure Russell King
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From: Russell King - ARM Linux @ 2014-06-24 19:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arm-kernel

A while back, Laurent raised some comments about the component helper,
which this patch set starts to address.

The first point it addresses is the repeated parsing inefficiency when
deferred probing occurs.  When DT is used, the structure of the
component helper today means that masters end up parsing the device
tree for each attempt to re-bind the driver.
									        
We remove this inefficiency by creating an array of matching data and
functions, which the component helper can use internally to match up
components to their master.

The second point was the inefficiency of destroying the list of
components each time we saw a failure.	We did this to ensure that
we kept things correctly ordered: component bind order matters.
As we have an array instead, the array is already ordered, so we
use this array to store the component pointers instead of a list,
and remember which are duplicates (and thus should be avoided.)
Avoiding the right duplicates matters as we walk the array in the
opposite direction at tear down.

 drivers/base/component.c               | 249 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c          |  83 +++++------
 drivers/staging/imx-drm/imx-drm-core.c |  57 +-------
 include/linux/component.h              |   8 +-
 4 files changed, 208 insertions(+), 189 deletions(-)

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2014-06-24 19:28 [PATCH RFC v2 0/8] component helper improvements Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-24 19:28 ` [PATCH RFC v2 1/8] component: fix missed cleanup in case of devres failure Russell King
2014-06-24 19:29 ` [PATCH RFC v2 2/8] component: ignore multiple additions of the same component Russell King
2014-06-24 19:29 ` [PATCH RFC v2 3/8] component: add support for component match array Russell King
2014-06-26 12:34   ` Philipp Zabel
2014-06-26 14:46     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-01 14:22       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-02 15:26         ` Inki Dae
2014-07-02 16:15           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-08-30 21:33           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-09-01  2:47             ` Inki Dae
2014-06-24 19:29 ` [PATCH RFC v2 4/8] drm: msm: update to use component match support Russell King
2014-06-24 19:29 ` [PATCH RFC v2 5/8] imx-drm: " Russell King
2014-06-24 19:29 ` [PATCH RFC v2 6/8] component: remove old add_components method Russell King
2014-06-24 19:29 ` [PATCH RFC v2 7/8] component: move check for unbound master into try_to_bring_up_masters() Russell King
2014-06-24 19:29 ` [PATCH RFC v2 8/8] component: track components via array rather than list Russell King

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