From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tony Lindgren Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] dt: omap3: add generic board file for dt support Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:18:36 -0700 Message-ID: <20110721071835.GB5783@atomide.com> References: <1310592975-25773-1-git-send-email-manjugk@ti.com> <1310592975-25773-4-git-send-email-manjugk@ti.com> <20110718090710.GZ5783@atomide.com> <20110719213458.GO6848@ponder.secretlab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110719213458.GO6848@ponder.secretlab.ca> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-arm-kernel-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org To: Grant Likely Cc: Kevin Hilman , "G, Manjunath Kondaiah" , devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, ben-linux@fluff.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org * Grant Likely [110719 14:29]: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 02:07:10AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > * Grant Likely [110716 22:08]: > > > > > > The way I see it, you've got two options: > > > > > > 1) modify the of_platform_bus_create() to call some kind of > > > of_platform_bus_create_omap() for devices that match "ti,omap3-device" > > > or something. > > > > > > 2) Leave of_platform_bus_create(), and instead us a notifier to attach > > > hwmod data to normal platform devices. omap_device_build() is > > > actually pretty simple. It allocated a device, it attaches > > > platform_data and hwmod pointers to the device and registers it. > > > omap_device_register() is just a wrapper around > > > platform_device_register(). > > > > > > My preference is definitely #2, but there is a wrinkle in this > > > approach. Unfortunately omap_devices are not simply plain > > > platform_devices with extra data attached, an omap_device actually > > > embeds the platform_device inside it, which cannot be attached after > > > the fact. I think I had talked with Kevin (cc'd) about eliminating > > > the embedding, but I cannot remember clearly on this point. As long > > > as platform_device remains embedded inside struct omap_device, #2 > > > won't work. > > > > > > In either case, looking up the correct hwmod data should be easy for > > > any device provided the omap code maintains a lookup table of > > > compatible strings and base addresses of devices (much like auxdata). > > > In fact, I'd be okay with extending auxdata to include OMAP fields if > > > that would be easiest since the whole point of auxdata is to ease the > > > transition to DT support. When a matching device is created, the > > > hwmod pointer can easily be attached. This should work transparently > > > for all omap devices, not just the i2c bus. > > > > Well we should be able to automgagically build the omap_device for > > each device tree entry. > > > > And then the device driver probe and runtime PM should be able to take > > care of the rest for the driver. And then there's no more driver > > specific platform init code needed ;) > > Right! That's the solution I'd like to see. > > > How about if we just have the hwmod code call omap_device_build for > > each device tree entry? > > I think that is pretty much equivalent to suggestion #1 above, only > I'm suggesting to take advantage of the infrastructure already > available in driver/of/platform.c in the form of > of_platform_populate(). The "of_platform_bus_create_omap()" function > suggested above I assumed would directly call omap_device_build(). OK > There are already hooks in the _populate call path to handle the > creation of amba_devices. I have no problem doing the same thing for > omap devices. OK Regards, Tony