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* Re: [PATCH v4 01/11] mfd: add pruss mfd driver.
@ 2011-05-20  5:38 Subhasish Ghosh
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 81+ messages in thread
From: Subhasish Ghosh @ 2011-05-20  5:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Arnd Bergmann, Mark Brown
  Cc: Nori, Sekhar, linux-arm-kernel, davinci-linux-open-source, sachi,
	Samuel Ortiz, open list, Watkins, Melissa

Hi,

Anything regarding this.

>>> > My whole point has been that you register them from the main pruss 
>>> > driver
>>> > based on run-time data instead of compile-time pre-configured stuff in 
>>> > the
>>> > board file.
>>>
>>> I'm not so sure - if the usage is fixed as a result of the pins on the
>>> device being wired a CAN bus then it seems reasonable to tell the system
>>> about that so it'll stop the user trying to run SPI or something against
>>> it at runtime.
>>
>> I'm mostly worried about the case where the pins are not hardwired for
>> some specific function -- Subhasish was mentioning that these may be
>> implemented using a pluggable extension board and I want to make sure
>> that you are not required to recompile the kernel when changing the
>> extension board.
>>
>> However, you made a good point that in many cases it will be hardwired
>> so it may be valuable to preconfigure this in a way that does not require
>> scripts to set up variables in sysfs when you already know what is there.
>>
>> Note that my suggestion to put the device name into the firmware file
>> covers this case, because you can then simply ship a firmware blob that
>> matches the hardware configuration. Thinking about the future device
>> tree setup, you can even put the firmware blob itself into a property
>> in the device tree file.
>>
>
> I earlier had an implementation where I used a pruss_devices structure
> in the board file.
>
> http://linux.omap.com/pipermail/davinci-linux-open-source/
> 2011-March/022339.html.
>
> We can use this implementation along with the sysfs to load the devices
> runtime. The configs that I have in the board_file for the devices 
> structure, are fixed for a board. To swap the boards, we do not need to
> re-compile the kernel.
>
>
> 

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2011-04-22 12:08 ` [PATCH v4 01/11] mfd: add pruss mfd driver Subhasish Ghosh
2011-04-22 16:00   ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2011-04-27  6:39     ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-04-27  7:29       ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2011-04-27  9:12         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-27 13:18           ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-04-27 13:35             ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2011-04-28  7:22               ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-04-28  7:46                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-27 13:16   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-27 13:38     ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-04-27 14:05       ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-28  7:17         ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-04-28  7:35           ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-04  7:18             ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-05-04 13:44               ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-04 14:38               ` Nori, Sekhar
2011-05-05 13:25                 ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-05-05 14:12                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-10  9:53                     ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-05-10 21:44                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-11  9:28                         ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-05-11 20:03                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-13 10:55                             ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-05-14 16:01                               ` Mark Brown
2011-05-14 20:33                                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-14 22:14                                   ` Mark Brown
2011-05-15  9:33                                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-16  6:06                                       ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-05-23 15:30                                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-24 12:17                                           ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-05-24 12:40                                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-24 13:43                                               ` Greg KH
2011-05-30 13:25                                                 ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-05-30 14:02                                                   ` Greg KH
2011-05-30 14:38                                                     ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-05-30 14:04                                                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-30 14:13                                                     ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-05-30 14:43                                                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-30 15:28                                                         ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-05-22 20:24                                   ` Samuel Ortiz
2011-05-22 20:21                             ` Samuel Ortiz
2011-05-23 15:13                               ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-22 12:08 ` [PATCH v4 02/11] da850: add pruss clock Subhasish Ghosh
2011-04-22 12:08 ` [PATCH v4 03/11] da850: pruss platform specific additions Subhasish Ghosh
2011-04-26 11:06   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2011-04-27  6:43     ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-04-27 10:05       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2011-04-27 10:19         ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-04-22 12:08 ` [PATCH v4 04/11] da850: pruss board " Subhasish Ghosh
2011-04-22 12:08 ` [PATCH v4 05/11] mfd: pruss SUART private data Subhasish Ghosh
2011-04-22 12:08 ` [PATCH v4 06/11] da850: pruss SUART board specific additions Subhasish Ghosh
2011-04-22 12:08 ` [PATCH v4 07/11] da850: pruss SUART platform " Subhasish Ghosh
2011-04-22 12:08 ` [PATCH v4 08/11] tty: add pruss SUART driver Subhasish Ghosh
2011-04-25 21:20   ` Greg KH
2011-04-26  6:51     ` Nori, Sekhar
2011-04-26 12:45       ` Greg KH
2011-04-27  5:23         ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-04-27 11:19           ` Nori, Sekhar
2011-04-27 13:15             ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-04-27 17:50               ` Nori, Sekhar
2011-05-02  8:34                 ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-05-02 17:15                   ` Nori, Sekhar
2011-05-10 10:54             ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-05-10 13:13               ` Nori, Sekhar
2011-05-13 12:10                 ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-05-09 13:39   ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-05-09 13:46     ` Alan Cox
2011-05-09 13:50       ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-05-09 13:55         ` Alan Cox
2011-05-10  6:17           ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-05-10 13:32             ` Alan Cox
2011-05-11  7:01               ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-05-11 10:35                 ` Alan Cox
2011-04-22 12:08 ` [PATCH v4 09/11] mfd: pruss CAN private data Subhasish Ghosh
2011-04-22 12:08 ` [PATCH v4 10/11] da850: pruss CAN platform specific additions Subhasish Ghosh
2011-04-22 12:08 ` [PATCH v4 11/11] da850: pruss CAN board " Subhasish Ghosh
2011-04-22 16:03   ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2011-04-26 10:57   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2011-04-27  7:03     ` Subhasish Ghosh
2011-05-20  5:38 [PATCH v4 01/11] mfd: add pruss mfd driver Subhasish Ghosh

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