Hi,
On Sunday 21 July 2013 04:01 PM, Tomasz Figa wrote:
Hi,
On Saturday 20 of July 2013 19:59:10 Greg KH wrote:
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 10:32:26PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013, Greg KH wrote:
That should be passed using platform data.
Ick, don't pass strings around, pass pointers. If you have
platform
data you can get to, then put the pointer there, don't use a
"name".
I don't think I understood you here :-s We wont have phy pointer
when we create the device for the controller no?(it'll be done in
board file). Probably I'm missing something.
Why will you not have that pointer? You can't rely on the "name" as
the device id will not match up, so you should be able to rely on
the pointer being in the structure that the board sets up, right?
Don't use names, especially as ids can, and will, change, that is
going
to cause big problems. Use pointers, this is C, we are supposed to
be
doing that :)
Kishon, I think what Greg means is this: The name you are using must
be stored somewhere in a data structure constructed by the board file,
right? Or at least, associated with some data structure somehow.
Otherwise the platform code wouldn't know which PHY hardware
corresponded to a particular name.
Greg's suggestion is that you store the address of that data structure
in the platform data instead of storing the name string. Have the
consumer pass the data structure's address when it calls phy_create,
instead of passing the name. Then you don't have to worry about two
PHYs accidentally ending up with the same name or any other similar
problems.
Close, but the issue is that whatever returns from phy_create() should
then be used, no need to call any "find" functions, as you can just use
the pointer that phy_create() returns. Much like all other class api
functions in the kernel work.
I think there is a confusion here about who registers the PHYs.
All platform code does is registering a platform/i2c/whatever device,
which causes a driver (located in drivers/phy/) to be instantiated. Such
drivers call phy_create(), usually in their probe() callbacks, so
platform_code has no way (and should have no way, for the sake of
layering) to get what phy_create() returns.
right.
IMHO we need a lookup method for PHYs, just like for clocks, regulators,
PWMs or even i2c busses because there are complex cases when passing just
a name using platform data will not work. I would second what Stephen said
[1] and define a structure doing things in a DT-like way.
Example;
[platform code]
static const struct phy_lookup my_phy_lookup[] = {
PHY_LOOKUP("s3c-hsotg.0", "otg", "samsung-usbphy.1", "phy.2"),
The only problem here is that if *PLATFORM_DEVID_AUTO* is used while
creating the device, the ids in the device name would change and
PHY_LOOKUP wont be useful.
Thanks
Kishon
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