* Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx> [160412 08:57]: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > * Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx> [160406 21:53]: > >> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > * Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> [160401 14:37]: > >> >> We currently try to match of_dev_auxdata based on compatible, > >> >> IO address, and device name. But in some cases we have multiple > >> >> instances of drivers that can use the same auxdata. > >> >> > >> >> Let's add an additional secondary lookup for generic compatible > >> >> match for auxdata if no device specific match is found. This does > >> >> not change the existing matching, and still allows adding device > >> >> specific auxdata. > >> >> > >> >> This simplifies things as specifying the IO address and device > >> >> name is prone errors as it requires maintaining an in kernel > >> >> database for each SoC. > >> > > >> > And here's what I can apply later on to get rid of some > >> > ifdeffery. > >> > > >> > I'm also planning to move some of the legacy omap hwmod > >> > functionality into proper device drivers, so can generic > >> > pdata for that too. > >> > >> Why can't the platform data be moved into the driver given that it > >> appears to be only SoC family specific? Auxdata was somewhat intended > >> to be temporary. It appears there is already some per compatible match > >> data for these OMAP parts in the driver. > > > > There are just too many dependencies to move legacy code into drivers > > directly. Especially when moving the omap hwmod code into drivers, > > we still to use hwmod callbacks at least for clockdomain configuration, > > wake-up dependencies and clock autogating configuration. > > > > When we have Linux generic frameworks available for all this we no longer > > need the auxdata. But meanwhile, removing the depenencies by using > > auxdata already allows moving big chunks of the hwmod code into regular > > device drivers. > > Okay. In that case: > > Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Apply it when you have actual users depending on it. OK thanks will do. Regards, Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
