Hi Pankaj
On Thu, 04 Sep 2014 10:15:27 +0530
Pankaj Dubey <pankaj.dubey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Boris,
>
> On Wednesday, September 03, 2014 Boris BREZILLON wrote,
> > To: Arnd Bergmann
> > Cc: Pankaj Dubey; kgene.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx; linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Alexander
> > Shiyan; naushad@xxxxxxxxxxx; Tomasz Figa; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> > joshi@xxxxxxxxxxx; linux-samsung-soc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> thomas.ab@xxxxxxxxxxx;
> > tomasz.figa@xxxxxxxxx; vikas.sajjan@xxxxxxxxxxx; chow.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx;
> > lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx; Michal Simek; linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> Mark
> > Brown
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mfd: syscon: Decouple syscon interface from
> platform
> > devices
> >
> > On Wed, 03 Sep 2014 15:49:04 +0200
> > Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wednesday 03 September 2014 15:16:11 Boris BREZILLON wrote:
> > > > I checked that part, and it appears most of the code is already
> > > > there (see usage of regmap_attach_dev function here [1]).
> > > >
> > > > The only problem I see is that errors are still printed with
> > > > dev_err, which, AFAIK, will trigger a kernel panic if dev is NULL.
> > >
> > > Actually not:
> > >
> > > static int __dev_printk(const char *level, const struct device *dev,
> > > struct va_format *vaf) {
> > > if (!dev)
> > > return printk("%s(NULL device *): %pV", level, vaf);
> > >
> > > return dev_printk_emit(level[1] - '0', dev,
> > > "%s %s: %pV",
> > > dev_driver_string(dev), dev_name(dev),
> > > vaf); }
> > >
> >
> > My bad then (I don't know where I looked at to think NULL dev was not
> gracefully
> > handled :-)). Thanks for pointing this out.
> > Given that, I think it should work fine even with a NULL dev.
> > I'll give it a try on at91 ;-).
> >
>
> We have tested this patch, on Exynos board and found working well.
> In our use case DT based drivers such as USB Phy, SATA Phy, Watchdog are
> calling
> syscon_regmap_lookup_by APIs to get regmap handle to Exynos PMU and it
> worked
> well for these drivers.
Great!
>
> It would be great if after testing you share result here or give a
> Tested-By.
Yep, that's the idea.
Let me some time to rework the PMC drivers (drivers/clk/at91/pmc.c) and
test it, and I'll add my Tested-by ;-).
Best Regards,
Boris
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Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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