Re: [PATCH v3] ata/pata_buddha: Probe via modalias instead of initcall

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Max,

On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 1:10 PM Max Staudt <max@enpas.org> wrote:
> On 07/29/2019 11:05 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >> --- a/drivers/ata/pata_buddha.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/ata/pata_buddha.c
> >
> >> +static const struct zorro_device_id pata_buddha_zorro_tbl[] = {
> >> +       { ZORRO_PROD_INDIVIDUAL_COMPUTERS_BUDDHA, },
> >> +       { ZORRO_PROD_INDIVIDUAL_COMPUTERS_CATWEASEL, },
> >> +       { ZORRO_PROD_INDIVIDUAL_COMPUTERS_X_SURF, },
> >
> > drivers/net/ethernet/8390/zorro8390.c also matches against
> > ZORRO_PROD_INDIVIDUAL_COMPUTERS_X_SURF, while only
> > a single zorro_driver can bind to it.  Hence you can no longer use both
> > IDE and Ethernet on X-Surf :-(
> > Before, this worked, as the IDE driver just walked the list of devices.
>
> Okay, now this gets dirty.
>
> The reason why I've submitted this patch is to allow pata_buddha to be built into the kernel at all. Without this patch, its initcall would be called before the Zorro structures are initialised, hence not finding any boards.

IC. I wasn't aware of the new pata_buddha.c driver not working at all
when builtin.

> That means that not only would the previous driver only make sense as a module that is manually ensured to be loaded after Zorro has started, but the X-Surf IDE support was a really ugly hack to begin with.

Right. Please note that most drivers for Zorro boards predate the device
driver framework, and thus all started life using zorro_find_device().
But this did have the advantage of supporting multi-function cards
out-of-the-box.
Later, several drivers were converted to the new driver framework.
but not all of them, due to multi-function cards.

> > I think the proper solution is to create MFD devices for Zorro boards
> > with multiple functions, and bind against the individual MFD cells.
> > That would also get rid of the nr_ports loop in the IDE driver, as each
> > instance would have its own cell.
> >
> > I played with this a long time ago, but never finished it.
> > It worked fine for my Ariadne Ethernet card.
> > Last state at
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k.git/log/?h=zorro-mfd
> >
> > Oh, seems I wrote up most of this before in
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAMuHMdVe1KgQWYZ_BfBkSo3zr0c+TenLMEw3T=BLEQNoZ6ex7A@mail.gmail.com/
>
> This looks great!
>
> Unfortunately, I don't have any MFD hardware other than a single
> Buddha to test this with. I especially don't have an X-Surf, hence no
> good way of testing this other than the two IDE channels on my Buddha.
> WinUAE doesn't seem to emulate the IDE controller either.
>
> What shall I do? Maybe as a stop-gap measure, we could hard-code a
> module_init() again, just for X-Surf? It's been good enough until a
> few weeks ago, so what could go wrong ;)

In the short run: keep on using drivers/ide/buddha.c?

Your single Buddha should be sufficient to convert pata_buddha.c from
a plain Zorro driver to an MFD cell driver, and test it.
I expect the buddha-mfd.c MFD driver from my zorro-mfd branch to
work as-is, or with very minor changes.

However, to keep X-Surf working, this needs to be synchronized with
a Zorro MFD conversion of the zorro8390 driver, too.

> On another note: Maybe your MFD idea could be used to expose the
> clockports on the Buddhas as well? That wouldn't solve the issue of
> clockport *expansions* being fundamentally non-enumerable, but maybe
> you can think of a reasonable way to attach a driver?

Yes, the clockport could be added as an extra MFD cell.  Later, drivers can
be written to bind against the clockport cell.

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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