Re: [PATCH] i2c: i2c-mux: Fix channel parent node assignment

[jmondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>]

Hi Geert,

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:31:21AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Jacopo,
>
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Jacopo Mondi
> <jacopo+renesas@jmondi.org> wrote:
> > I2c-mux channels are created with the mux parent device as their own
> > parent, while they should be siblings of the mux itself.
>
> Isn't it the other way around? Cfr. the example and the patch.

Yeah, I actually didn't know the exact meaning of "siblings" then.

So:
I2c-mux channels are created as mux siblings while they should be
children of the mux itself. Fix it.

Any better? ;)

Thanks
   j
>
> > Fix this.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo+renesas@jmondi.org>
> > Suggested-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Hello,
> >    while inspecting child nodes of an i2c adapter it has been noted that
> > child devices of an i2c-mux are listed as children of the i2c adapter itself,
> > and not of the i2c-mux.
> >
> > The hierarchy of devices looked like
> >
> > -- i2c-04
> > --- eeprom@57
> > --- video_receiver@70
> > --- video_receiver@34
> > --- gmsl-deserializer@0         <-- MUX
> > --- gmsl-deserializer@0/i2c@0   <-- MUX CHANNEL
>
> = sibling of mux
>
> >
> > It now looks like
> >
> > -- i2c-04
> > --- eeprom@57
> > --- video_receiver@70
> > --- video_receiver@34
> > --- gmsl-deserializer@0
> > ---- gmsl-deserializer@0/i2c@0
>
> = child of mux
>
> >
> >  drivers/i2c/i2c-mux.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-mux.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-mux.c
> > index 83768e8..37b7804 100644
> > --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-mux.c
> > +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-mux.c
> > @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ int i2c_mux_add_adapter(struct i2c_mux_core *muxc,
> >         priv->adap.owner = THIS_MODULE;
> >         priv->adap.algo = &priv->algo;
> >         priv->adap.algo_data = priv;
> > -       priv->adap.dev.parent = &parent->dev;
>
> = sibling of mux
>
> > +       priv->adap.dev.parent = muxc->dev;
>
> = child of mux
>
> >         priv->adap.retries = parent->retries;
> >         priv->adap.timeout = parent->timeout;
> >         priv->adap.quirks = parent->quirks;
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                         Geert
>
> --
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>
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