Re: [alsa-devel] [Patch v6 1/7] slimbus: Device management on SLIMbus

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On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 10:42:23AM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> On 11/10/17 05:07, Vinod Koul wrote:
> >On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 06:21:34PM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> >>On 10/10/17 17:49, Vinod Koul wrote:

> >>>>>>+/**
> >>>>>>+ * slim_register_controller: Controller bring-up and registration.
> >>...
> >>>>>>+
> >>>>>>+	mutex_init(&ctrl->m_ctrl);
> >>>>>>+	ret = device_register(&ctrl->dev);
> >>>>>
> >>>>>one more device_register?? Can you explain why
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>This is a device for each controller.
> >>>
> >>>wont the controller have its own platform_device?
> >>
> >>Reason could be that slim_register controller can be called from any code
> >>not just platform devices..
> >
> >ah which cases would those be. I was expecting that you would have a
> >platform_device as a slimbus controller which would call slim_register?
> As of now there is only one controller which uses platform driver, but in
> future there might be more, but this is something which makes the slimbus
> core more flexible.

even if you have more controllers wouldn't we have similar number of platform
devices. Each instance of the link/controller would have its device node.

Thanks
-- 
~Vinod
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