Hi Arnd, > Hmm, it's clearly not doing what I was remembering it to do ;-) > > Before 2014 commit bdb0066df96e ("mfd: syscon: Decouple syscon > interface > from platform devices"), it was supposed to be the same regmap in > both cases, with the linked list being maintained to ensure we > never get more than one instance for device_node. Yep, that makes sense with your earlier suggestions. > After this commit, I see that the platform_driver no longer matches > syscon nodes from devicetree, but only those nodes that have > platform_device.dev.name="syscon" and are created from board > files. The only user of manually created syscon devices at the > time was mach-clps711x, but that has been converted to DT > a long time ago, so I don't even see anything using the > platform_device at all. > > This would in turn indicate that we can completely remove the > platform_driver code, but I don't see how your RFC patch then > had any effect because it wouldn't actually perform the > reset for any devices in mainline kernels. I've been changing a few things at once, it's entirely possible that my testing is incorrect! So, I'll add the reset controller linkage in just the DT-based code, and leave the platform device as-is. And then make sure that I'm getting the correct regmap <--> reset interactions :D Cheers, Jeremy