[PATCH] mfd: syscon: Decouple syscon interface from syscon devices

[arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)]

On Monday 01 September 2014 08:49:18 Lee Jones wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2014, Pankaj Dubey wrote:
> 
> > From: Tomasz Figa <t.figa@samsung.com>
> > 
> > Currently a syscon entity can be only registered directly through a
> > platform device that binds to a dedicated driver. However in certain use
> > cases it is desirable to make a device used with another driver a syscon
> > interface provider. For example, certain SoCs (e.g. Exynos) contain
> > system controller blocks which perform various functions such as power
> > domain control, CPU power management, low power mode control, but in
> > addition contain certain IP integration glue, such as various signal
> > masks, coprocessor power control, etc. In such case, there is a need to
> > have a dedicated driver for such system controller but also share
> > registers with other drivers. The latter is where the syscon interface
> > is helpful.
> > 
> > This patch decouples syscon object from syscon driver, so that it can be
> > registered from any driver in addition to the original "syscon" platform
> > driver.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tomasz Figa <t.figa@samsung.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Pankaj Dubey <pankaj.dubey@samsung.com>
> > ---
> > 
> > RFC patch [1] was posted by Tomasz Figa. This patch addresses some of
> > comments given by Arnd to RFC patch, and further decouples syscon from
> > device model. It also gives flexibility of registering with syscon at
> > early stage using device_node object.
> 
> It would be helpful if Arnd gave this revision his blessing (Ack).

I never saw a reason why we don't take this all the way as discussed
a few times: Completely remove the dependency of syscon on having
a platform driver for it, and make it possible to just call
syscon_regmap_lookup_by_phandle() without having to register
it first.

	Arnd