Re: [PATCH] hwmon: (aspeed-pwm-tacho) Deassert reset in probe

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On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 06:53:15PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 10/31/2017 06:34 PM, Joel Stanley wrote:
> > The ASPEED SoC must deassert a reset in order to use the PWM/tach
> > peripheral.
> > 
> > The device tree bindings are updated to document the resets phandle, and
> > the example is updated to match what is expected for both the reset and
> > clock phandle. Note that the bindings should have always had the reset
> > controller, as the hardware is unusable without it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Presumably the driver is being used. This change makes it incompatible with
> existing users. This is unacceptable; after all, it is possible that the
> device is taken out of reset by ROMMON or BIOS.
> 
> On top of that, the reset controller code is quite strict and issues a
> backtrace if CONFIG_RESET_CONTROLLER is not enabled. Yet, there is no
> dependency added on RESET_CONTROLLER. You might want to consider making
> the new control optional and using devm_reset_control_get_optional_exclusive().
> 
> The DT change should be a separate patch.
> 
> More comments below.

[..]

> >   	return PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(hwmon);
> >   }
> > +static int aspeed_pwm_tacho_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > +{
> > +	struct aspeed_pwm_tacho_data *priv = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> > +
> > +	reset_control_deassert(priv->rst);
> 
> This seems to be quite pointless. Also, did you test this code ?
> 
> > +
> > +	return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> >   static const struct of_device_id of_pwm_tacho_match_table[] = {
> >   	{ .compatible = "aspeed,ast2400-pwm-tacho", },
> >   	{ .compatible = "aspeed,ast2500-pwm-tacho", },
> > @@ -969,6 +989,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, of_pwm_tacho_match_table);
> >   static struct platform_driver aspeed_pwm_tacho_driver = {
> >   	.probe		= aspeed_pwm_tacho_probe,
> > +	.probe		= aspeed_pwm_tacho_remove,

Also, this cant be right (should be .remove)?

> >   	.driver		= {
> >   		.name	= "aspeed_pwm_tacho",
> >   		.of_match_table = of_pwm_tacho_match_table,
> > 
> 
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