Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] ACPI: ACPI 5.0 device enumeration proposal

[Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org>]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 02:30:00PM +0000, Zhang, Rui wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mika Westerberg [mailto:mika.westerberg-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org]
> > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 2:45 PM
> > To: Zhang, Rui
> > Cc: LKML; linux-pm; linux-i2c; linux-acpi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org; Len, Brown;
> > Rafael J. Wysocki; Grant Likely; Dirk Brandewie
> > Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] ACPI: ACPI 5.0 device enumeration proposal
> > Importance: High
> > 
> > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 03:37:43PM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote:
> > >
> > > the main idea is that, for Serial Buses like I2C and SPI, we
> > enumerate
> > > the controller as a platform device, and then enumerate the slaves
> > via
> > > i2c/spi_register_board_info. And then, when the controller is really
> > > probed and enabled in the platform driver, the SPI/I2C bus code will
> > > enumerate I2C/SPI slaves automatically.
> > > And for the other devices, we will enumerate all of them as platform
> > > devices, which is not covered in this patch set yet.
> > 
> > Can you show some example how we could use this new code for example
> > with an existing I2C/SPI slave driver?
> 
> This is just prototype patch set that I want to illustrate my idea
> on ACPI device enumeration, to get more thoughts on this.
> So no example driver so far.

But surely you have thought how this should be done? Otherwise we only see
a part of the solution here. What if this enumeration you introduce here
doesn't play well when I2C/SPI are added?

> 
> > Let's say the device uses few
> > GPIOs, one for interrupt and other for triggering firmware download. In
> > addition to that it needs a special parameters that can be extracted
> > running the "_DSM" method of the device.
> > 
> > Normally the driver would get this stuff from the platform data or from
> > Device Tree but how it is done with these patches?
> 
> Can you show me an example driver that gets the special parameters from Device Tree?

drivers/misc/eeprom/at25.c but there are much more if you search for DT
enabled drivers.

Now, I don't know what is the proper way to pass parameters in ACPI but
"_DSM" seems to be one that is being used.