From: Javier Martinez Canillas <martinez.javier@gmail.com> To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Javier Martinez Canillas" <javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk>, "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, "Tony Lindgren" <tony@atomide.com>, "Benoît Cousson" <b-cousson@ti.com>, "Linus Walleij" <linus.walleij@linaro.org>, "Enric Balletbo i Serra" <eballetbo@gmail.com>, "Ezequiel Garcia" <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/7] platform: add a device node Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:35:43 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <CAAwP0s0fCJmUfTJweGhXj5bXsQ0Gov9JbUJtqYMwL7duNLZv_Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20130210093708.GL17852@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 02:49:21AM +0100, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: >> I knew this would be controversial and that's why I didn't mean it to be a patch >> but a RFC :) >> >> The problem basically is that you have to associate the platform device with its >> corresponding DT device node because it can be used in the driver probe function. > > When DT is being used, doesn't DT create the platform devices for you, > with the device node already set correctly? > Well they usually do but not always just like usually you have a platform_device in your board code and call platform_device_register(). But in some configurations you can't just define the platform_device required resources (I/O memory, IRQ, etc) as static platform data. In some cases you need a level of indirection. In this particular case a SMSC ethernet chip is connected to an OMAP3 processor through its General-Purpose Memory Controller. You can't just define the I/O memory used by the device since you first need to request that address to the GPMC. The same happens with the IRQ line since a OMAP GPIO pin is used so you have to first configure the GPIO line as input. So in platform code you call to gpmc_smsc911x_init() passing all the GPMC specific configurations (GPIO used for IRQ, GPMC chip select, etc) Then gpmc_smsc911x_init() does all the needed setup, fills a platform_data for the real platform_device and calls platform_device_register_resndata(). >From the smsc911x platform_driver probe function point of view it just have resources and doesn't know if it's I/O memory is directly mapped or is through a memory controller as the GPMC. It also doesn't know if the IRQ is a GPIO or not. Another approach could be extending the current SMSC LAN DT binding with GPMC-specific properties so the platform driver could do this setup when the device node is found and the probe function is called. > Manually creating platform devices and adding DT nodes to it sounds like > the wrong thing to be doing. > -- Yes, I don't like this approach to much either but I didn't find a better way to do it. That was the main point of this RFC. I'm still learning about Device Trees so I hope that someone with more experience with DT or more familiarized with OMAP GPMC and the SMSC driver could take a step forward and help me giving a better idea. Thanks a lot for your feedback and best regards, Javier
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From: martinez.javier@gmail.com (Javier Martinez Canillas) To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: [PATCH RFC 1/7] platform: add a device node Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:35:43 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <CAAwP0s0fCJmUfTJweGhXj5bXsQ0Gov9JbUJtqYMwL7duNLZv_Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20130210093708.GL17852@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 02:49:21AM +0100, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: >> I knew this would be controversial and that's why I didn't mean it to be a patch >> but a RFC :) >> >> The problem basically is that you have to associate the platform device with its >> corresponding DT device node because it can be used in the driver probe function. > > When DT is being used, doesn't DT create the platform devices for you, > with the device node already set correctly? > Well they usually do but not always just like usually you have a platform_device in your board code and call platform_device_register(). But in some configurations you can't just define the platform_device required resources (I/O memory, IRQ, etc) as static platform data. In some cases you need a level of indirection. In this particular case a SMSC ethernet chip is connected to an OMAP3 processor through its General-Purpose Memory Controller. You can't just define the I/O memory used by the device since you first need to request that address to the GPMC. The same happens with the IRQ line since a OMAP GPIO pin is used so you have to first configure the GPIO line as input. So in platform code you call to gpmc_smsc911x_init() passing all the GPMC specific configurations (GPIO used for IRQ, GPMC chip select, etc) Then gpmc_smsc911x_init() does all the needed setup, fills a platform_data for the real platform_device and calls platform_device_register_resndata(). >From the smsc911x platform_driver probe function point of view it just have resources and doesn't know if it's I/O memory is directly mapped or is through a memory controller as the GPMC. It also doesn't know if the IRQ is a GPIO or not. Another approach could be extending the current SMSC LAN DT binding with GPMC-specific properties so the platform driver could do this setup when the device node is found and the probe function is called. > Manually creating platform devices and adding DT nodes to it sounds like > the wrong thing to be doing. > -- Yes, I don't like this approach to much either but I didn't find a better way to do it. That was the main point of this RFC. I'm still learning about Device Trees so I hope that someone with more experience with DT or more familiarized with OMAP GPMC and the SMSC driver could take a step forward and help me giving a better idea. Thanks a lot for your feedback and best regards, Javier
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-10 11:35 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2013-02-09 20:44 [PATCH RFC 0/7] ARM: OMAP: add DT binding for gpmc-smsc911x Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-09 20:44 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-09 20:44 ` [PATCH RFC 1/7] platform: add a device node Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-09 20:44 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-10 1:02 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman 2013-02-10 1:02 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman 2013-02-10 1:49 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-10 1:49 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-10 9:37 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2013-02-10 9:37 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2013-02-10 11:35 ` Javier Martinez Canillas [this message] 2013-02-10 11:35 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-11 8:16 ` Sascha Hauer 2013-02-11 8:16 ` Sascha Hauer 2013-02-11 10:33 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-11 10:33 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-11 11:24 ` Sascha Hauer 2013-02-11 11:24 ` Sascha Hauer 2013-02-11 11:38 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-11 11:38 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-18 13:51 ` Grant Likely 2013-02-18 13:51 ` Grant Likely 2013-02-18 13:56 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-18 13:56 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-18 13:33 ` Grant Likely 2013-02-18 13:33 ` Grant Likely 2013-02-09 20:44 ` [PATCH RFC 2/7] net: smsc911x: add pinctrl support Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-09 20:44 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-11 14:23 ` Linus Walleij 2013-02-11 14:23 ` Linus Walleij 2013-02-11 14:29 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-11 14:29 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-09 20:44 ` [PATCH RFC 3/7] ARM: OMAP: gpmc-smsc911x: add DT dev node init function Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-09 20:44 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-11 10:30 ` Mark Rutland 2013-02-11 10:30 ` Mark Rutland 2013-02-11 10:40 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-11 10:40 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-09 20:44 ` [PATCH RFC 4/7] ARM: OMAP: gpmc-smsc911x: pass a dev node to platform registration Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-09 20:44 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-09 20:44 ` [PATCH RFC 5/7] ARM: OMAP: gpmc: add support for gpmc-smsc911x child nodes Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-09 20:44 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-09 20:44 ` [PATCH RFC 6/7] ARM: dts: OMAP: Add an GPMC node for OMAP3 Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-09 20:44 ` Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-09 20:44 ` [PATCH RFC 7/7] ARM: dts: omap3-igep0020: Add SMSC911x LAN chip support Javier Martinez Canillas 2013-02-09 20:44 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
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