Re: [PATCH 0/3] capebus moving omap_devices to mach-omap2

[Benoit Cousson <b-cousson@ti.com>]

Hi Panto,

On 10/31/2012 07:09 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Pantelis Antoniou <panto@antoniou-consulting.com> [121031 11:05]:
>> Hi Tony,
>>
>> On Oct 31, 2012, at 7:52 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>>
>>> * Pantelis Antoniou <panto@antoniou-consulting.com> [121031 10:26]:
>>>> It is painless to move the adapter DT devices to arch/arm/mach-omap2
>>>>
>>>> However I got bit by the __init at omap_build_device family functions.
>>>> If you don't remove it, crashes every time you instantiate a device
>>>> at runtime, or you load the cape driver as a module.
>>>
>>> Hmm I think you misunderstood me. You only need to create the
>>> platform_device under arch/arm/mach-omap2. The device creation
>>> happens only at __init, so omap_build_device can stay as __init.
>>> The driver itself should be under drivers.
>>>
>>> But is this bus on non-device-tree omaps? If not, just make it
>>> device tree only.
>>>
>>
>> I'm afraid that's not the case. The whole notion of capebus is that
>> instantiation of the devices doesn't just happen early at the boot
>> sequence.
>>
>> It is perfectly valid for a cape to be instantiated via loading
>> a module, or by making an override by writing a sysfs file.
>>
>> When having the __init there, the function has been long removed
>> and you get a crash by calling into the weeds.
>>
>> So the sequence is:
>>
>> <early boot>       Register the adapter driver.
> 
> OK this is always there for the hardware, and done during
> the __init and this one should have an omap_device..
>  
>> <user>             insmod bone-geiger-cape
>> <cape-is-matched>  call omap_build_device
>>
>> Please look into the capebus patches for the details. 
> 
> ..but it seems that the devices connected to capebus should
> not have anything to do with omap_device and hwmod?


Yeah, I do agree. I'm confused as well. Only OMAP IPs under PRCM control
could have an hwmod and thus must be handled by an omap_device.

Any devices that is created later cannot be omap_device. The DT core
will create regular platform_device for them.

Since cape is an external board, it should have nothing to do with
omap_device.

Looking at your patch:
 da8xx-dt: Create da8xx DT adapter device

I understand why you do that, but in fact that patch does not make sense
to me :-(

Why do you have to create an omap_device from the driver probe?


Regards,
Benoit