Re: Gianfar ethernet device

["Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>]

On 11/11/07, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/11/07, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> >
> > > The real solution is that gianfar support belongs in a device driver,
> > > not in a common file. That whole fsl_soc.c file is a catch-all of
> > > things that belong in device drivers. I haven't looked at every line
> > > in it, but 90%+ of the code should be moved into device drivers.
> > >
> > > I'm preparing a patch that moves the i2c driver out of fsl_soc.c and
> > > into i2c_mpc.c.
> >
> > The problem is how do you instantiate it. I'm working on some solution
> > for that but it's not there yet.

What's an example of a device that can't be instantiated?

>
> Are there powerpc platforms without device trees?
>
> Standard of_platform driver works fine to instantiate the i2c driver
> on mpc5200.
>
> static struct of_device_id mpc_i2c_of_match[] = {
>         {
>                 .compatible     = "fsl-i2c",
>         },
> };
> MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, mpc_i2c_of_match);
>
> /* Structure for a device driver */
> static struct of_platform_driver mpc_i2c_driver = {
>         .match_table    = mpc_i2c_of_match,
>         .probe          = mpc_i2c_probe,
>         .remove         = __devexit_p(mpc_i2c_remove),
>         .driver         = {
>                 .owner  = THIS_MODULE,
>                 .name   = DRV_NAME,
>         },
> };
>
> static int __init mpc_i2c_init(void)
> {
>         int rv;
>
>         rv = of_register_platform_driver(&mpc_i2c_driver);
>         if (rv) {
>                 printk(KERN_ERR DRV_NAME " of_register_platform_driver failed (%i)\n", rv);
>                 return rv;
>         }
>         return 0;
> }
>
> module_init(mpc_i2c_init);
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> i2c and alsa soc core instantiate like this, asoc v2 is not in tree
> yet. These cores used to create platform drivers, but that was wrong,
> they don't have any hardware associated with them.
>
> static int __init i2c_init(void)
> {
>         int retval;
>
>         retval = bus_register(&i2c_bus_type);
>         if (retval)
>                 return retval;
>         return class_register(&i2c_adapter_class);
> }
>
> subsys_initcall(i2c_init);
>
> --
> Jon Smirl
> jonsmirl@gmail.com
>


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