On Tue, 4 Apr 2023 09:23:36 +0200 Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/04/2023 09:20, Herve Codina wrote: > >> I suggest that none of this (besides the child registration, which is > >> achieved by a simple OF API call in this case) has anything to do with > >> MFD. We are not requesting and initialising shared resources and we are > >> not using the MFD API to register children. The pin control > >> functionality clearly needs moving to Pinctrl and the rest, if you > >> cannot find a suitable home for it *may be* suitable for Misc. > >> > > > > I am confused and I am not really sure to understand where to put my driver. > > > > The core pef2256.c needs to: > > 1) setup the pef2256 > > 2) add the children > > > > To add the children it calls devm_of_platform_populate() to add the audio > > parts as several audio children can be available with the same compatible > > string. > > > > I plan to move the pinctrl part to the pinctrl subsystem. With this done, > > the core pef2256.c will probably add the children using: > > - a mfd_cell for the pinctrl part > > - devm_of_platform_populate() for the audio children > > > > The setup (E1 lines and TDM configuration) still needs to be done by the > > core pef2256.c. Moving this part only to Misc will break the hierarchy. > > The audio children depends on the core pef2256.c as this one do the setup. > > Having in the audio children and the part that do the setup in same hierarchy > > level is not correct. Audio children should be children of the part that do > > the setup. > > > > So, the structure I have in mind: > > - pef2256.c (MFD) > > implement and do the setup at probe() > > Add the children at probe(): > > - pef2256-pinctrl (pinctrl) added using mfd_add_devices() > > - pef2256-codec (ASoC codec) added using devm_of_platform_populate() > > > > Lee, with this in mind, can the core pef2256.c be a MFD driver ? > > You do not use MFD here, so why do you want to keep it in MFD? If you > disagree, please tell me where is the MFD code in your patch? I don't want to absolutely use MFD. I just want to put my driver somewhere and I don't know the right location between MFD and Misc. Basically, the driver needs to do (little simplified and error path removed): static const struct mfd_cell pef2256_devs[] = { { .name = "lantiq-pef2256-pinctrl", }, }; static int pef2256_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) { struct pef2256 *pef2256; void __iomem *iomem; int ret; int irq; pef2256 = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*pef2256), GFP_KERNEL); if (!pef2256) return -ENOMEM; pef2256->dev = &pdev->dev; iomem = devm_platform_ioremap_resource(pdev, 0); pef2256->regmap = devm_regmap_init_mmio(&pdev->dev, iomem, &pef2256_regmap_config); pef2256->mclk = devm_clk_get_enabled(&pdev->dev, "mclk"); pef2256->sclkr = devm_clk_get_enabled(&pdev->dev, "sclkr"); pef2256->sclkx = devm_clk_get_enabled(&pdev->dev, "sclkx"); pef2256->reset_gpio = devm_gpiod_get_optional(&pdev->dev, "reset", GPIOD_OUT_LOW); if (pef2256->reset_gpio) { gpiod_set_value_cansleep(pef2256->reset_gpio, 1); udelay(10); gpiod_set_value_cansleep(pef2256->reset_gpio, 0); udelay(10); } pef2556_of_parse(pef2256, np); irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0); ret = devm_request_irq(pef2256->dev, irq, pef2256_irq_handler, 0, "pef2256", pef2256); platform_set_drvdata(pdev, pef2256); mfd_add_devices(pef2256->dev, PLATFORM_DEVID_NONE, pef2256_devs, ARRAY_SIZE(pef2256_devs), NULL, 0, NULL); pef2256_setup(pef2256); devm_of_platform_populate(pef2256->dev); return 0; } > > Best regards, > Krzysztof > -- Hervé Codina, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com