On Monday 09 July 2018 02:59 PM, Alexandre Belloni wrote: > On 09/07/2018 09:55:53+0200, Johan Hovold wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 11:41:49AM +0530, Keerthy wrote: >>> Prepare rtc driver for rtc-only with DDR in self-refresh mode. >>> omap_rtc_power_off now should cater to two features: >>> >>> 1) RTC plus DDR in self-refresh is power a saving mode where in the >>> entire system including the different voltage rails from PMIC are >>> shutdown except the ones feeding on to RTC and DDR. DDR is kept in >>> self-refresh hence the contents are preserved. RTC ALARM2 is connected >>> to PMIC_EN line once we the ALARM2 is triggered we enter the mode with >>> DDR in self-refresh and RTC Ticking. After a predetermined time an RTC >>> ALARM1 triggers waking up the system[1]. The control goes to bootloader. >>> The bootloader then checks RTC scratchpad registers to confirm it was an >>> rtc_only wakeup and follows a different path, configure bare minimal >>> clocks for ddr and then jumps to the resume address in another RTC >>> scratchpad registers and transfers the control to Kernel. Kernel then >>> restores the saved context. omap_rtc_power_off_program does the ALARM2 >>> programming part. >>> >>> [1] http://www.ti.com/lit/ug/spruhl7h/spruhl7h.pdf Page 2884 >>> >>> 2) Power-off: This is usual poweroff mode. omap_rtc_power_off calls the >>> above omap_rtc_power_off_program function and in addition to that >>> programs the OMAP_RTC_PMIC_REG for any external wake ups for PMIC like >>> the pushbutton and shuts off the PMIC. >>> >>> Hence the split in omap_rtc_power_off. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Keerthy <j-keerthy@xxxxxx> >>> --- >>> >>> Changes in v2: >>> >>> * Add details in the commit log. >>> * Use of_device_is_system_power_controller to check if rtc node is >>> indeed the system power control instead of manually reading property. >>> >>> drivers/rtc/interface.c | 12 ++++ >>> drivers/rtc/rtc-omap.c | 167 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- >>> include/linux/rtc.h | 2 + >>> 3 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/interface.c b/drivers/rtc/interface.c >>> index 6d4012d..d8b70f0 100644 >>> --- a/drivers/rtc/interface.c >>> +++ b/drivers/rtc/interface.c >>> @@ -1139,3 +1139,15 @@ int rtc_set_offset(struct rtc_device *rtc, long offset) >>> trace_rtc_set_offset(offset, ret); >>> return ret; >>> } >>> + >>> +/** >>> + * rtc_power_off_program - Some of the rtc are hooked on to PMIC_EN >>> + * line and can be used to power off the SoC. >>> + * >>> + * Kernel interface to program rtc to power off >>> + */ >>> +void rtc_power_off_program(struct rtc_device *rtc) >>> +{ >>> + rtc->ops->power_off_program(rtc->dev.parent); >>> +} >>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rtc_power_off_program); >> >> We typically do not add new interfaces without any users, so this will >> probably have to go in along with the corresponding omap changes for >> rtc-only mode. >> > > I'm probably not smart enough but I still don't get why you need to add > an interface at all, especially one that will result in a NULL pointer > dereference on 99.6% of the drivers. > > This is so specific to your use case that this has zero chance to be > reused by another driver. Alexandre, So are you suggesting use an EXPORT API from omap-rtc driver alone? as it is too specific to one use case? - Keerthy > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html