Em Tue, 29 Jun 2021 16:11:01 +0100 Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 12:31:28PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > platform drvdata can't be used inside the regulator driver, > > as this is already used by the MFD and SPMI drivers. > > Can you clarify what exactly is using which platform drvdata already? > This all feels very confused and I can't tell what the problem that's > being fixed is, if it's a real issue or how this fixes it. I don't remember the dirty details anymore... It has been almost a year since when I started doing that. The SPMI controller driver left staging 8 months ago. I guess it is related with passing the parent's device to devm_regulator_register() at the hi6421v600-regulator driver: struct regulator_config config = { }; ... config.dev = pdev->dev.parent; ... rdev = devm_regulator_register(dev, &info->desc, &config); This is needed by SPMI bus and the SPMI controller in order to use the right platform data when talking to the hardware. > > drivers/misc/hi6421v600-irq.c | 9 ++-- > > drivers/regulator/hi6421v600-regulator.c | 49 +++++++++++---------- > > drivers/staging/hikey9xx/hi6421-spmi-pmic.c | 18 +++----- > > include/linux/mfd/hi6421-spmi-pmic.h | 25 ----------- > > I'm especially nervous about the core driver still being in staging > perhaps meaning there's some issue with it doing odd and confusing > things. The only missing part in staging is the MFD driver. At the current way, it is very simple (71 lines in total): it just declares a regmap, and has a single function on it: static int hi6421_spmi_pmic_probe(struct spmi_device *pdev) { struct device *dev = &pdev->dev; int ret; struct hi6421_spmi_pmic *ddata; ddata = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*ddata), GFP_KERNEL); if (!ddata) return -ENOMEM; ddata->regmap = devm_regmap_init_spmi_ext(pdev, ®map_config); if (IS_ERR(ddata->regmap)) return PTR_ERR(ddata->regmap); ddata->dev = dev; dev_set_drvdata(&pdev->dev, ddata); ret = devm_mfd_add_devices(&pdev->dev, PLATFORM_DEVID_NONE, hi6421v600_devs, ARRAY_SIZE(hi6421v600_devs), NULL, 0, NULL); if (ret < 0) dev_err(dev, "Failed to add child devices: %d\n", ret); return ret; } You can see the full driver's code at: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/8d871e2ccc544d11959c16d8312dbf03dd01b1c8.1624962269.git.mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx/#Z30drivers:mfd:hi6421-spmi-pmic.c I'm not aware of anything left preventing it to leave staging. Thanks, Mauro