Re: [RFC 10/11] iio: Add OF support

[Guenter Roeck <linux-0h96xk9xTtrk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 03:37:46PM +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 02/01/2013 08:42 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 03:59:17PM +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> >> On 02/01/2013 03:33 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 12:58:02PM +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> >>>> 013 10:43 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >>>>> Provide bindings, new API access functions, and parse OF data
> >>>>> during initialization.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi Guenter,
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks for taking care of this.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'd prefer to have only one iio_get_channel which handles both the dt and the
> >>>> non-dt case. Otherwise we'll soon have constructs like
> >>>>
> >>>> if (dev->of_node)
> >>>> 	chan = of_iio_get_channel(dev->of_node, 1);
> >>>> else
> >>>> 	chan = iio_get_channel(dev_name(dev), "vcc");
> >>>>
> >
> > Clock code has of_clk_get_by_name(node *, name), clk_get(dev, name), and
> > of_clk_get(node *, index). Right now of_iio_get_channel matches of_clk_get,
> > and iio_get_channel matches clk_get.
> >
> > Question is really how we want to API to look like. I am open to suggestions.
> 
> I'm not necessarily against having a separate of_iio_get_channe function, but
> I'm not sure if we really need it, maybe use it internally as a helper and if
> we really need it in some driver make it public and export it. clk_get first
> calls of_clk_get_by_name, and only if didn't find a clk it falls back to the
> map based lookup. I think iio_get_channel should behave the similar. of_clk_get
> is kind of just a helper function for of_clk_get_by_name, not sure if we need
> it as a separate function in IIO. If we find out we need it we can probably
> still add it later.
> 
You are right. If I modify iio_get_channel to take the device pointer as
argument, it should work for both OF and non-OF with the approach you outlined
above.

Thanks,
Guenter