Re: [PATCH v6 3/7] mfd: Add support for the Lantiq PEF2256 framer

[Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 13:39:46 +0100
Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Apr 2023, Herve Codina wrote:
> 
> > The Lantiq PEF2256 is a framer and line interface component designed to
> > fulfill all required interfacing between an analog E1/T1/J1 line and the
> > digital PCM system highway/H.100 bus.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/mfd/Kconfig         |  16 +
> >  drivers/mfd/Makefile        |   1 +
> >  drivers/mfd/pef2256-regs.h  | 250 ++++++++++
> >  drivers/mfd/pef2256.c       | 950 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++  
> 
> 95% of this driver needs to be moved somewhere else.
> 
> What is a Framer?  Perhaps sound/ is a good candidate?

The pef2256 framer is a device that transfers data to/from a TDM (time-slots
data) from/to quite old telecommunication lines (E1 in my case).
Several subsystem can set/get data to/from the TDM. Each device using their
own time-slots set.

On my use-case, I have some audio consumer and a not yet upstreamed HDLC
consumer. Both of them uses the framer to know the E1 link state.
The framer needs to be initialized 'globally' and not by a specific consumer
as several consumers can use the framer.

> 
> >  include/linux/mfd/pef2256.h |  52 ++
> >  5 files changed, 1269 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/mfd/pef2256-regs.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/mfd/pef2256.c
> >  create mode 100644 include/linux/mfd/pef2256.h  
> 
> [...]
> 
> > +static int pef2256_add_audio_devices(struct pef2256 *pef2256)
> > +{
> > +	const char *compatible = "lantiq,pef2256-codec";
> > +	struct mfd_cell *audio_devs;
> > +	struct device_node *np;
> > +	unsigned int count = 0;
> > +	unsigned int i;
> > +	int ret;
> > +
> > +	for_each_available_child_of_node(pef2256->dev->of_node, np) {
> > +		if (of_device_is_compatible(np, compatible))
> > +			count++;
> > +	}  
> 
> Converting Device Tree nodes into MFD cells to register with the
> Platform Device API is not a reasonable use-case of MFD.
> 
> Have the CODEC driver match on "lantiq,pef2256-codec" and let it
> instantiate itself.

As the framer is going to used by several subsystem, I cannot instantiate
it in the specific ASoC subsystem.

> 
> Your first version using of_platform_populate() was closer to the mark.

The issue was that I need MFD cells for the pinctrl part.

> 
> > +	if (!count)
> > +		return 0;
> > +
> > +	audio_devs = kcalloc(count, sizeof(*audio_devs), GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	if (!audio_devs)
> > +		return -ENOMEM;
> > +
> > +	for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
> > +		(audio_devs + i)->name = "lantiq-pef2256-codec";
> > +		(audio_devs + i)->of_compatible = compatible;
> > +		(audio_devs + i)->id = i;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	ret = mfd_add_devices(pef2256->dev, 0, audio_devs, count, NULL, 0, NULL);
> > +	kfree(audio_devs);
> > +	return ret;
> > +}  
> 

Best regards,
Hervé

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Hervé Codina, Bootlin
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