Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] reset: Add APIs to manage array of resets

[Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>]

On Wed 19 Jul 08:59 PDT 2017, Philipp Zabel wrote:

> From: Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org>
> 
> Many devices may want to request a bunch of resets and control them. So
> it's better to manage them as an array. Add APIs to _get() an array of
> reset_control, reusing the _assert(), _deassert(), and _reset() APIs for
> single reset controls. Since reset controls already may control multiple
> reset lines with a single hardware bit, from the user perspective, reset
> control arrays are not at all different from single reset controls.
> Note that these APIs don't guarantee that the reset lines managed in the
> array are handled in any particular order.
> 
> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
> Cc: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org>
> [p.zabel@pengutronix.de: changed API to hide reset control arrays behind
>  struct reset_control]
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>

This looks more or less identical to how regulators and clocks already
deals with resources in bulk; see regulator_bulk_data and clk_bulk_data
and their associated functions.

I would really like to see that you follow this model, to make it easier
for developers to work with and use the various subsystems.

Regards,
Bjorn