Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] mfd: add syscon driver based on regmap

[Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>]

On 08/28/2012 02:09 AM, Dong Aisheng wrote:
> From: Dong Aisheng <dong.aisheng@linaro.org>
> 
> Add regmap based syscon driver.
> This is usually used for access misc bits in registers which does not belong
> to a specific module, for example, IMX IOMUXC GPR and ANATOP.
> With this driver, client can use generic regmap API to access registers
> which are registered into syscon.

> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/syscon.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/syscon.txt

> +* System Controller Registers R/W driver

I think the binding document could use some information about what a
"syscon" actually is, especially since the compatible value is something
generic like "syscon" rather than something with a vendor-specific
prefix. How about:

A system controller node represents a register region containing a set
of miscellaneous registers. The registers are not cohesive enough to
represent as any specific type of device. The typical use-case is for
some other node's driver, or platform-specific code, to acquire a
reference to the syscon node (e.g. by phandle, node path, or search
using a specific compatible value), interrogate the node (or associated
OS driver) to determine the location of the registers, and access the
registers directly.

> +Required properties:
> +- compatible: Should contain "syscon".
> +- reg: the register range can be access from syscon
> +
> +Examples:
> +gpr: iomuxc-gpr@020e0000 {
> +	compatible = "fsl,imx6q-iomuxc-gpr", "syscon";
> +	reg = <0x020e0000 0x38>;
> +};

> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/Kconfig b/drivers/mfd/Kconfig

> +config MFD_SYSCON
> +        bool "System Controller Register R/W Based on Regmap"
> +        select REGMAP_MMIO
> +        help
> +          Select this option to enable accessing system control registers
> +	  via regmap.

I think the indentation is off there.

> +static int __devinit syscon_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
...
> +	regcache_cache_only(syscon->regmap, false);

Isn't that the default?

Aside from that, I don't have any particular comments on this series, so
please consider it,

Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>