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From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] Allwinner drivers changes for 4.2
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 22:33:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3504312.mqN5LCp7Sb@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150528201817.GZ8557@lukather>

On Thursday 28 May 2015 22:18:17 Maxime Ripard wrote:
> 
> > A related question is whether we want to pass arguments here, and how
> > to link the controller to the sram nodes.
> 
> Do we need to?
> 
> When a client would try to claim an SRAM, we can parse the phandle,
> find the SRAM name, and look into its own table for the matching name.
> 
> And since it's pretty much how pinctrl (can) work, we can extend that
> mechanism in the future if we want to support other drivers with teh
> same bindings.

The only reason for passing an argument would be the mux ID of the user,
in particular for SRAM_C2, which has three possible users other
than CPU. Passing these as an argument would avoid having to put
the configuration into the inter-driver interface.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-28 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-11 19:35 [GIT PULL] Allwinner drivers changes for 4.2 Maxime Ripard
2015-05-12 20:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-05-13  9:43   ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-13 10:30     ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-05-13 11:54       ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-13 13:03         ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-05-13 14:42           ` Heiko Stuebner
2015-05-21 12:20             ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-28 17:16               ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-05-28 19:08                 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-28 19:17                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-05-28 20:18                     ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-28 20:33                       ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2015-05-13 14:58           ` Maxime Ripard

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