On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 06:50:29PM +0200, Tomasz Figa wrote: > > Ick, no. Why can't you just pass the pointer to the phy itself? If you > > had a "priv" pointer to search from, then you could have just passed the > > original phy pointer in the first place, right? > > IMHO it would be better if you provided some code example, but let's try to > check if I understood you correctly. It's not my code that I want to have added, so I don't have to write examples, I just get to complain about the existing stuff :) > 8><------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > [Board file] > > static struct phy my_phy; > > static struct platform_device phy_pdev = { > /* ... */ > .platform_data = &my_phy; > /* ... */ > }; > > static struct platform_device phy_pdev = { > /* ... */ > .platform_data = &my_phy; > /* ... */ > }; > > [Provider driver] > > struct phy *phy = pdev->dev.platform_data; > > ret = phy_create(phy); > > [Consumer driver] > > struct phy *phy = pdev->dev.platform_data; > > ret = phy_get(&pdev->dev, phy); > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------><8 > > Is this what you mean? No. Well, kind of. What's wrong with using the platform data structure unique to the board to have the pointer? For example (just randomly picking one), the ata-pxa driver would change include/linux/platform_data/ata-pxa.h to have a phy pointer in it: struct phy; struct pata_pxa_pdata { /* PXA DMA DREQ<0:2> pin */ uint32_t dma_dreq; /* Register shift */ uint32_t reg_shift; /* IRQ flags */ uint32_t irq_flags; /* PHY */ struct phy *phy; }; Then, when you create the platform, set the phy* pointer with a call to phy_create(). Then you can use that pointer wherever that plaform data is available (i.e. whereever platform_data is at). > > The issue is that a string "name" is not going to scale at all, as it > > requires hard-coded information that will change over time (as the > > existing clock interface is already showing.) > > I fully agree that a simple, single string will not scale even in some, not > so uncommon cases, but there is already a lot of existing lookup solutions > over the kernel and so there is no point in introducing another one. I'm trying to get _rid_ of lookup "solutions" and just use a real pointer, as you should. I'll go tackle those other ones after this one is taken care of, to show how the others should be handled as well. > > Please just pass the real "phy" pointer around, that's what it is there > > for. Your "board binding" logic/code should be able to handle this, as > > it somehow was going to do the same thing with a "name". > > It's technically correct, but quality of this solution isn't really nice, > because it's a layering violation (at least if I understood what you mean). > This is because you need to have full definition of struct phy in board file > and a structure that is used as private data in PHY core comes from > platform code. No, just a pointer, you don't need the "full" structure until you get to some .c code that actually manipulates the phy itself, for all other places, you are just dealing with a pointer and a structure you never reference. Does that make more sense? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html