Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 08/14] net: dsa: felix: update init_regmap to be string-based

[Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Colin,

On Sun, Sep 25, 2022 at 05:29:22PM -0700, Colin Foster wrote:
> During development, it was believed that a wrapper for ocelot_regmap_init()
> would be sufficient for the felix driver to work in non-mmio scenarios.
> This was merged in during commit 242bd0c10bbd ("net: dsa: ocelot: felix:
> add interface for custom regmaps")
> 
> As the external ocelot DSA driver grew closer to an acceptable state, it
> was realized that most of the parameters that were passed in from struct
> resource *res were useless and ignored. This is due to the fact that the
> external ocelot DSA driver utilizes dev_get_regmap(dev, resource->name).
> 
> Instead of simply ignoring those parameters, refactor the API to only
> require the name as an argument. MMIO scenarios this will reconstruct the
> struct resource before calling ocelot_regmap_init(ocelot, resource). MFD
> scenarios need only call dev_get_regmap(dev, name).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Foster <colin.foster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

I don't like how this turned out. I was expecting you not to look at the
exported resources from the ocelot-core anymore - that was kind of the
point of using just the names rather than the whole resource definitions.

I am also sorry for the mess that the felix driver currently is in, and
the fact that some things may have confused you. I will prepare a patch
set which offers an alternative to this, and send it for review.