On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:34:32PM +0200, Ivan T. Ivanov wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 11:16 -0700, Courtney Cavin wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 03:19:28PM +0200, Ivan T. Ivanov wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 17:31 -0700, Courtney Cavin wrote:
> > > > From: Josh Cartwright <joshc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > The Qualcomm 8941 and 8841 PMICs are components used with the Snapdragon
> > > > 800 series SoC family. This driver exists largely as a glue mfd component,
> > > > it exists to be an owner of an SPMI regmap for children devices
> > > > described in device tree.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Thanks. This is exactly what I have planed to do :-)
> > >
> >
> > Sorry if I usurped your work!
>
> Noting to worry. I just was surprised how close it is to my vision ;-).
>
Well, you might notice how extremely close it is to what Josh posted in
October in his SPMI series [1], so I can't take any credit there.
> >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Josh Cartwright <joshc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Courtney Cavin <courtney.cavin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > > drivers/mfd/Kconfig | 13 +++++++++++
> > > > drivers/mfd/Makefile | 1 +
> > > > drivers/mfd/pm8x41.c | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > > 3 files changed, 77 insertions(+)
> > > > create mode 100644 drivers/mfd/pm8x41.c
> > > >
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > > +
> > > > +static int pm8x41_probe(struct spmi_device *sdev)
> > > > +{
> > > > + struct regmap *regmap;
> > > > +
> > > > + regmap = devm_regmap_init_spmi_ext(sdev, &pm8x41_regmap_config);
> > > > + if (IS_ERR(regmap)) {
> > > > + dev_dbg(&sdev->dev, "regmap creation failed.\n");
> > > > + return PTR_ERR(regmap);
> > > > + }
> > > > +
> > > > + return of_platform_populate(sdev->dev.of_node, NULL, NULL, &sdev->dev);
> > >
> > > I think that this will not going to work. For example in this particular
> > > case, both controllers have "qcom,qpnp-revid" peripheral which is
> > > located at offset 0x100.
> > >
> > > And the result is:
> > >
> > > [ 0.963944] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/bus/platform/devices/100.revid'
> > >
> > [...]
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
> >
> > That's expected behavior actually. You have two nodes in DT named the
> > same thing and at the same address. This error is due to the fact that
> > all devices are put in '/bus/platform/devices/' with a name made from
> > the unit address and name specified in DT. There's no other unique
> > information used to differentiate the devices.
> >
> > If you simply change the names in DT, it works.
>
> Sure, it will work. But they are part of different address spaces.
> Why we should add, IMHO, artificial requirement that names should
> be unique? Is it possible to prefix child nodes with parent device
> address? As side note, why they should be registered on the platform
> bus at all? To be honest I don't have solution.
I agree, and it would appear that the ePAPR does as well. Feel free to
send patches!
> > [...] qcom,qpnp-revid 100.qcom,pm8841-revid: PM8841 v2.0 options: 0, 0, 2, 2
> > [...] qcom,qpnp-revid 100.qcom,pm8941-revid: PM8941 v3.0 options: 2, 0, 0, 0
> >
> > Whether this should be "fixed" in the device/bus/sysfs core, I don't
> > know, but it isn't specifically an issue with this driver, and there's
> > little-to-nothing I can do to fix it here.
> >
> > -Courtney
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