On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 09:46:56 +0000 Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:04:30AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > I've chatted a bit with Hans Verkuil about this topic at fosdem and > > apparently both v4l and alsa have something like this already in their > > helper libraries. Adding more people as fyi in case they want to > > switch to the new driver core stuff from Russell. > > It's not ALSA, but ASoC which has this. Mark is already aware of this > and will be looking at it from an ASoC perspective. Russell, I started to use your code (which works fine, thanks), and it avoids a lot of problems, especially, about probe_defer in a DT context. I was wondering if your componentised mechanism could be extended to the devices defined by DT. In the DT, when a device_node is a phandle, this means it is referenced by some other device(s), and these device(s) will not start until the phandle device is registered. Then, the idea is to do a component_add() for such phandle devices in device_add() (device_register). Pratically, - the component_add() call in device_register would not include any bind/unbind callback function, so, this should be tested in component_bind/unbind(), - component_add would not be called if the device being added already called component_add in its probe function. A simple flag in the struct device_node should solve this problem. What do you think about this? -- Ken ar c'hentañ | ** Breizh ha Linux atav! ** Jef | http://moinejf.free.fr/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
