Re: [PATCH 1/2] power: reset: Add generic SYSCON register mapped poweroff.

[Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com>]

Paul,

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> wrote:

> MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() is defined only in include/linux/module.h. The few
> related lines read (in next-20150311):
>     #ifdef MODULE
>     /* Creates an alias so file2alias.c can find device table. */
>     #define MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(type, name)                                     \
>     extern const typeof(name) __mod_##type##__##name##_device_table             \
>       __attribute__ ((unused, alias(__stringify(name))))
>     #else  /* !MODULE */
>     #define MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(type, name)
>     #endif
>
> So I think MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() is always preprocessed away for boolean
> code. Did I get that right?

Yeah, looking at that convinced me :) I have it already removed in v2.
>
>> >> +module_platform_driver(syscon_poweroff_driver);
>> >
>> > I think the built-in equivalent of this would be adding a wrapper that
>> > only does
>> >     platform_driver_register(&syscon_poweroff_driver);
>>
>> I couldn't find other examples in the tree doing this. Any pointers?
>
> Please note "think". But see drivers/cpufreq/dbx500-cpufreq.c:
>     static int __init dbx500_cpufreq_register(void)
>     {
>             return platform_driver_register(&dbx500_cpufreq_plat_driver);
>     }
>     device_initcall(dbx500_cpufreq_register);
>
> or drivers/gpio/gpio-vf610.c:
>     static int __init gpio_vf610_init(void)
>     {
>             return platform_driver_register(&vf610_gpio_driver);
>     }
>     device_initcall(gpio_vf610_init);

I included it into v3. Thanks.

Thanks again for your feedback,

Moritz