From: "Cousson, Benoit" <b-cousson@ti.com> To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>, "Hilman, Kevin" <khilman@ti.com>, Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>, "G, Manjunath Kondaiah" <manjugk@ti.com>, "devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org" <devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org>, "Nayak, Rajendra" <rnayak@ti.com>, linux-omap <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>, "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org> Subject: Re: How to handle named resources with DT? Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 22:59:07 +0200 [thread overview] Message-ID: <4E419F9B.4030804@ti.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20110809195114.GB14281@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> On 8/9/2011 9:51 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 11:23:20AM +0200, Cousson, Benoit wrote: >> Hi Grant, >> >> Trying to bind hwmod informations with DT, I'm facing a little limitation. >> A bunch of drivers are using the platform_get_resource_byname, so the >> name for the resource is needed. >> >> The name is used so far for IORESOURCE_MEM, IORESOURCE_IRQ and >> IORESOURCE_DMA types of resources. >> >> Do you have any plan to add that, or do you have any clean way to avoid >> that without having to use the resource index? > > Named resources are evil. You only have to look at /proc/iomem to see > why that's the case. Here's an example: > > b7a01000-b7a01003 : set > b7a01000-b7a01003 : set So what? That just shows that /proc/iomem outputs sucks, but that does not prove that named resources are evil. [...] > How very informative. Not. So what device owns those? Who knows, > that's lost by the crappy named resource stuff. Maybe, but this is not lost by the platform_device, and this is what really matters in this case. We need to get the resource local to a device, we do not care about the global view. This is exactly what the platform_get_resource_byname is doing. For my point of view, the need for that is similar to the clkdev / clk_get(dev, name) you did. For sure, in that case, the real global clock name is still relevant, but the important point for the driver is the local device name. Not providing the name of the resource will give you the device name, but how informative is that for the driver? What entry is the good one in the middle of that list? b7a01040-b7a01043 : omap_foo b7a01044-b7a01047 : omap_foo b7a01048-b7a0104b : omap_foo b7a01060-b7a01063 : omap_foo Bottom-line, in both cases, /proc/iomem sucks... But who cares about the internal representation? A platform_driver can still take advantage of that, and this is exactly what we are looking for. Benoit
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From: b-cousson@ti.com (Cousson, Benoit) To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: How to handle named resources with DT? Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 22:59:07 +0200 [thread overview] Message-ID: <4E419F9B.4030804@ti.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20110809195114.GB14281@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> On 8/9/2011 9:51 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 11:23:20AM +0200, Cousson, Benoit wrote: >> Hi Grant, >> >> Trying to bind hwmod informations with DT, I'm facing a little limitation. >> A bunch of drivers are using the platform_get_resource_byname, so the >> name for the resource is needed. >> >> The name is used so far for IORESOURCE_MEM, IORESOURCE_IRQ and >> IORESOURCE_DMA types of resources. >> >> Do you have any plan to add that, or do you have any clean way to avoid >> that without having to use the resource index? > > Named resources are evil. You only have to look at /proc/iomem to see > why that's the case. Here's an example: > > b7a01000-b7a01003 : set > b7a01000-b7a01003 : set So what? That just shows that /proc/iomem outputs sucks, but that does not prove that named resources are evil. [...] > How very informative. Not. So what device owns those? Who knows, > that's lost by the crappy named resource stuff. Maybe, but this is not lost by the platform_device, and this is what really matters in this case. We need to get the resource local to a device, we do not care about the global view. This is exactly what the platform_get_resource_byname is doing. For my point of view, the need for that is similar to the clkdev / clk_get(dev, name) you did. For sure, in that case, the real global clock name is still relevant, but the important point for the driver is the local device name. Not providing the name of the resource will give you the device name, but how informative is that for the driver? What entry is the good one in the middle of that list? b7a01040-b7a01043 : omap_foo b7a01044-b7a01047 : omap_foo b7a01048-b7a0104b : omap_foo b7a01060-b7a01063 : omap_foo Bottom-line, in both cases, /proc/iomem sucks... But who cares about the internal representation? A platform_driver can still take advantage of that, and this is exactly what we are looking for. Benoit
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-09 20:59 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 141+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2011-08-09 9:23 How to handle named resources with DT? Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-09 9:23 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-09 16:29 ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah 2011-08-09 16:29 ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah 2011-08-09 16:57 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-09 16:57 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-09 17:23 ` Grant Likely 2011-08-09 17:23 ` Grant Likely 2011-08-09 17:47 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-09 17:47 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-09 17:52 ` Matt Porter 2011-08-09 17:52 ` Matt Porter 2011-08-09 18:26 ` Scott Wood 2011-08-09 18:26 ` Scott Wood 2011-08-09 20:57 ` Grant Likely 2011-08-09 20:57 ` Grant Likely [not found] ` <20110809205723.GE11568-e0URQFbLeQY2iJbIjFUEsiwD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org> 2011-08-09 21:08 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-09 21:08 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-09 21:17 ` Grant Likely 2011-08-09 21:17 ` Grant Likely 2011-08-09 21:44 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-09 21:44 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-09 21:49 ` Grant Likely 2011-08-09 21:49 ` Grant Likely 2011-08-09 21:53 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-09 21:53 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-10 1:52 ` David Gibson 2011-08-10 1:52 ` David Gibson 2011-08-10 7:11 ` Paul Walmsley 2011-08-10 7:11 ` Paul Walmsley [not found] ` <20110810015214.GD23511-787xzQ0H9iQXU02nzanrWNbf9cGiqdzd@public.gmane.org> 2011-08-10 15:01 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-10 15:01 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-10 15:18 ` Scott Wood 2011-08-10 15:18 ` Scott Wood [not found] ` <4E42A14B.9050308-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org> 2011-08-10 15:21 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-10 15:21 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-10 19:22 ` Grant Likely 2011-08-10 19:22 ` Grant Likely 2011-08-10 19:57 ` David Brown 2011-08-10 19:57 ` David Brown 2011-08-10 20:12 ` Grant Likely 2011-08-10 20:12 ` Grant Likely 2011-08-11 12:28 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-11 12:28 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-12 3:02 ` David Gibson 2011-08-12 3:02 ` David Gibson [not found] ` <20110812030218.GP30552-787xzQ0H9iQXU02nzanrWNbf9cGiqdzd@public.gmane.org> 2011-08-12 8:14 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-12 8:14 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-12 8:41 ` Felipe Balbi 2011-08-12 8:41 ` Felipe Balbi [not found] ` <20110812084106.GC19467-UiBtZHVXSwEVvW8u9ZQWYwjfymiNCTlR@public.gmane.org> 2011-08-12 14:35 ` Arnd Bergmann 2011-08-12 14:35 ` Arnd Bergmann 2011-08-12 15:09 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-12 15:09 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-12 17:21 ` Grant Likely 2011-08-12 17:21 ` Grant Likely 2011-08-24 19:15 ` Kevin Hilman 2011-08-24 19:15 ` Kevin Hilman 2011-08-24 23:16 ` Felipe Balbi 2011-08-24 23:16 ` Felipe Balbi [not found] ` <20110824231613.GC19890-UiBtZHVXSwEVvW8u9ZQWYwjfymiNCTlR@public.gmane.org> 2011-08-25 10:28 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2011-08-25 10:28 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [not found] ` <20110825102824.GB10405-l+eeeJia6m9vn6HldHNs0ANdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org> 2011-08-25 15:05 ` Arnd Bergmann 2011-08-25 15:05 ` Arnd Bergmann 2011-08-25 18:16 ` Kevin Hilman 2011-08-25 18:16 ` Kevin Hilman 2011-08-25 21:02 ` Arnd Bergmann 2011-08-25 21:02 ` Arnd Bergmann 2011-08-26 11:01 ` Removing platform_get_resource_byname() (was Re: How to handle named resources with DT?) Paul Walmsley 2011-08-26 11:01 ` Paul Walmsley 2011-08-26 11:01 ` Paul Walmsley 2011-08-26 4:12 ` How to handle named resources with DT? David Gibson 2011-08-26 4:12 ` David Gibson [not found] ` <20110826041200.GD2308-787xzQ0H9iQXU02nzanrWNbf9cGiqdzd@public.gmane.org> 2011-08-26 10:58 ` Arnd Bergmann 2011-08-26 10:58 ` Arnd Bergmann 2011-08-26 13:06 ` David Gibson 2011-08-26 13:06 ` David Gibson 2011-08-26 15:35 ` Arnd Bergmann 2011-08-26 15:35 ` Arnd Bergmann [not found] ` <201108261735.55412.arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org> 2011-08-26 15:41 ` Arnd Bergmann 2011-08-26 15:41 ` Arnd Bergmann 2011-08-27 14:37 ` David Gibson 2011-08-27 14:37 ` David Gibson 2011-08-27 18:13 ` Arnd Bergmann 2011-08-27 18:13 ` Arnd Bergmann 2011-08-27 19:31 ` Paul Walmsley 2011-08-27 19:31 ` Paul Walmsley 2011-08-29 17:16 ` Arnd Bergmann 2011-08-29 17:16 ` Arnd Bergmann 2011-08-28 8:39 ` David Gibson 2011-08-28 8:39 ` David Gibson 2011-08-28 23:06 ` Paul Walmsley 2011-08-28 23:06 ` Paul Walmsley [not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.1108281100150.23968-rwI8Ez+7Ko+d5PgPZx9QOdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org> 2011-08-28 23:43 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2011-08-28 23:43 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2011-08-29 1:57 ` Paul Walmsley 2011-08-29 1:57 ` Paul Walmsley 2011-08-29 17:18 ` Arnd Bergmann 2011-08-29 17:18 ` Arnd Bergmann 2011-08-27 21:47 ` Paul Walmsley 2011-08-27 21:47 ` Paul Walmsley [not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.1108271444240.23968-rwI8Ez+7Ko+d5PgPZx9QOdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org> 2011-08-29 21:54 ` Mark Brown 2011-08-29 21:54 ` Mark Brown 2011-08-26 14:13 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-26 14:13 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-30 2:29 ` David Gibson 2011-08-30 2:29 ` David Gibson 2011-08-30 9:27 ` Felipe Balbi 2011-08-30 9:27 ` Felipe Balbi [not found] ` <20110830092722.GG23907-UiBtZHVXSwEVvW8u9ZQWYwjfymiNCTlR@public.gmane.org> 2011-08-31 2:32 ` David Gibson 2011-08-31 2:32 ` David Gibson 2011-08-27 20:00 ` Paul Walmsley 2011-08-27 20:00 ` Paul Walmsley 2011-08-25 17:38 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-25 17:38 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-09 21:52 ` Scott Wood 2011-08-09 21:52 ` Scott Wood 2011-08-09 20:55 ` Grant Likely 2011-08-09 20:55 ` Grant Likely 2011-08-09 21:06 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-09 21:06 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-09 21:16 ` Grant Likely 2011-08-09 21:16 ` Grant Likely 2011-08-09 21:37 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-09 21:37 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-12 4:10 ` Shawn Guo 2011-08-12 4:10 ` Shawn Guo 2011-08-12 8:56 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-12 8:56 ` Cousson, Benoit 2011-08-12 11:47 ` Shawn Guo 2011-08-12 11:47 ` Shawn Guo 2011-08-12 14:40 ` Arnd Bergmann 2011-08-12 14:40 ` Arnd Bergmann 2011-08-10 1:29 ` David Gibson 2011-08-10 1:29 ` David Gibson 2011-08-10 6:08 ` Paul Walmsley 2011-08-10 6:08 ` Paul Walmsley 2011-08-09 19:51 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2011-08-09 19:51 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2011-08-09 20:59 ` Cousson, Benoit [this message] 2011-08-09 20:59 ` Cousson, Benoit
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