Re: [PATCH RESEND 06/16] mfd: add TI LMU driver

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>]

On Tue, 24 Nov 2015, Kim, Milo wrote:

> On 11/24/2015 11:35 AM, Kim, Milo wrote:
> >Hi Lee,
> >
> >Thanks for all your comments. Please see my comments below.
> >
> >On 11/23/2015 7:30 PM, Lee Jones wrote:
> >>>+int ti_lmu_read_byte(struct ti_lmu *lmu, u8 reg, u8 *read)
> >>>>+{
> >>>>+	int ret;
> >>>>+	unsigned int val;
> >>>>+
> >>>>+	ret = regmap_read(lmu->regmap, reg, &val);
> >>>>+	if (ret < 0)
> >>>>+		return ret;
> >>>>+
> >>>>+	*read = (u8)val;
> >>>>+	return 0;
> >>>>+}
> >>>>+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ti_lmu_read_byte);
> >>It doesn't get much more simple than this.
> >>
> >>What's the purpose of abstracting it?
> >>
> >>>>+int ti_lmu_write_byte(struct ti_lmu *lmu, u8 reg, u8 data)
> >>>>+{
> >>>>+	return regmap_write(lmu->regmap, reg, data);
> >>>>+}
> >>>>+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ti_lmu_write_byte);
> >>>>+
> >>>>+int ti_lmu_update_bits(struct ti_lmu *lmu, u8 reg, u8 mask, u8 data)
> >>>>+{
> >>>>+	return regmap_update_bits(lmu->regmap, reg, mask, data);
> >>>>+}
> >>>>+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ti_lmu_update_bits);
> >>Okay, I lied, it does get more simple.
> >>
> >>Seems like abstraction for the sake of abstraction here.
> >>
> >>Feel free to try and convince me otherwise.
> >>
> >
> >The main reason was that LMU MFD core provides consistent register
> >access among LMU drivers like ti-lmu-backlight, leds-lm3633,
> >lm363x-regulator and ti-lmu-fault-monitor('ti-lmu-hwmon' will be changed
> >to this in the 2nd patch).
> >
> >However, LMU register helpers are exactly same as regmap interface
> >except using ti_lmu data structure. So let me replace them with regmap
> >functions. Thanks for pointing this out.
> 
> I just realized LMU MFD core helpers also provide module
> dependencies by using EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL().
> 
> # modprobe -D ti-lmu-backlight
> insmod /lib/modules/<ver>/kernel/drivers/base/regmap/regmap-i2c.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/<ver>/kernel/drivers/mfd/mfd-core.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/<ver>/kernel/drivers/mfd/ti-lmu.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/<ver>/kernel/drivers/video/backlight/ti-lmu-backlight.ko
> # modprobe -D ti-lmu-fault-monitor
> insmod /lib/modules/<ver>/kernel/drivers/base/regmap/regmap-i2c.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/<ver>/kernel/drivers/mfd/mfd-core.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/<ver>/kernel/drivers/mfd/ti-lmu.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/<ver>/kernel/drivers/mfd/ti-lmu-fault-monitor.ko
> # modprobe -D lm363x-regulator
> insmod /lib/modules/<ver>/kernel/drivers/base/regmap/regmap-i2c.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/<ver>/kernel/drivers/mfd/mfd-core.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/<ver>/kernel/drivers/mfd/ti-lmu.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/<ver>/kernel/drivers/regulator/lm363x-regulator.ko
> # modprobe -D leds-lm3633
> insmod /lib/modules/<ver>/kernel/drivers/base/regmap/regmap-i2c.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/<ver>/kernel/drivers/mfd/mfd-core.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/<ver>/kernel/drivers/mfd/ti-lmu.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/<ver>/kernel/drivers/leds/leds-lm3633.ko
> 
> ti-lmu.ko should be loaded first because it has hardware enable pin
> control code. Four other drivers have dependency on this module.
> Without EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), this dependency will be gone like
> below.
> 
> # modprobe -D ti-lmu-backlight
> insmod /lib/modules/<ver>/kernel/drivers/video/backlight/ti-lmu-backlight.ko
> # modprobe -D ti-lmu-fault-monitor
> insmod /lib/modules/<ver>/kernel/drivers/mfd/ti-lmu-fault-monitor.ko
> # modprobe -D lm363x-regulator
> insmod /lib/modules/<ver>/kernel/drivers/regulator/lm363x-regulator.ko
> # modprobe -D leds-lm3633
> insmod /lib/modules/<ver>/kernel/drivers/leds/leds-lm3633.ko
> 
> If LMU MFD core module is not loaded and other modules call regmap
> helpers, then loaded drivers will not work because hardware is not
> enabled yet.
> 
> So I'd like to keep LMU MFD helpers for module dependencies.
> Additionally, I'll modify 'ti_lmu_read_byte()' as follows.
> 
> int ti_lmu_read_byte(struct ti_lmu *lmu, u8 reg, u8 *read)
> {
> 	return regmap_read(lmu->regmap, reg, (unsigned int *)read);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ti_lmu_read_byte);
> 
> Please let me know if you have better idea.

You're keeping the helpers for the wrong reasons.  This has now become
a hack.  If you have dependencies between modules, either use the init
levels or defer probe in the usual way.

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