RE: [PATCH v4 10/11] ARM: EXYNOS: Add platform driver support for Exynos PMU.

Pankaj Dubey
2014-06-25T04:29:48Z

Hi,

On Wednesday, June 25 2014 Tomasz Figa write:
> On 24.06.2014 13:28, Pankaj Dubey wrote:
> > On Tuesday, June 17 2014, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> >> On 10.05.2014 08:56, Pankaj Dubey wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >>> +
> >>> + ret = platform_driver_register(&exynos_pmu_driver);
> >>> + if (ret < 0)
> >>> + goto out;
> >>> +
> >>> + exynos_pmu_pdev = platform_device_register_simple("exynos-pmu",
> -1,
> >>> + NULL, 0);
> >>
> >> Hmm, I don't see the point of making this a platform driver only to
> > register respective
> >> platform device few lines below. If you take into account the patch
> >> for
> > syscon I
> >> posted as a reply to patch 06/11, you will be able to make this a
> >> normal
> > platform
> >> driver that binds to DT node directly and then register a syscon in
> >> probe
> > function
> >> above.
> >>
> >
> > Well I updated PMU to be a syscon provider using your patch. It worked
well.
> > I have following two points to mention here:
> >
> > 1: For making PMU a normal platform driver, other than making PMU a
> > syscon provider we need to change PMU's DT binding. Basically we need
> > to remove "syscon"
> > as second compatibility string. I hope this should not be an issue.
>
> I don't see the reason for this. Could you elaborate on this?
>

Currently syscon driver is registered via postcore_initcall whereas exynos
pmu has
arch_initcall. So if we keep syscon as second compatibility in exynos pmu
node,
syscon will be registered first and hence only syscon will be probed.

> I know that the way Linux currently handles multiple compatible strings is
broken,
> but despite this, if you just make sure your platform driver registers
before syscon
> platform driver, it should be fine.
>

Yes, this could be possible if I convert arch_initcall of exynos pmu to
postcore_initcall.

As after converting arch_initcall to postcore_initcall, syscon driver will
not be probed
for exynos pmu node. Also as exynos pmu driver will now register itself as
syscon provider,
I could not see any use of keeping second compatibility as "syscon" in
exynos pmu
node. Do you think it is still required?

After removing "syscon" compatibility string from exynos pmu node, I have
tested
S2R as well as watchdog driver functionality, which is user of regmap handle
of exynos pmu
and both are working fine on exynos5250.

> >
> > 2: I can see for your syscon patch Arnd has some comments, hopefully
> > we can address his concern.
> >
>
> Yes. I will get to it after sorting out few other things from my queue.
> Or you can do it if you want - the purpose of that RFC patch was just to
> show the idea I had in my mind.
>

OK, let me post exynos pmu v5, based on your patch, and then if time permits
I will have a look in it.

> Best regards,
> Tomasz

Thanks,
Pankaj Dubey