From: Grant Likely <grant.likely-s3s/WqlpOiPyB63q8FvJNQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Mark Brown
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 04/12] spi: add ti-ssp spi master driver
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:45:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101116204554.GB5016@angua.secretlab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101116113409.GH3338-GFdadSzt00ze9xe1eoZjHA@public.gmane.org>
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:34:09AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:47:04AM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Grant Likely
>
> > > Instead, it is now incumbent on the board support code to ensure that
> > > any device that depends on another device (including i2c or spi
> > > regulators) will defer registration until the prerequisite devices are
> > > bound to drivers.
>
> You did also say you were going to write helpers to make this easier - I
> do fear that we're going to end up with far too much boiler plate code
> in machine drivers if we have to open code this. I guess device tree is
> going to need the helpers anyway :)
Yup, and I will, but as can be seen the boilerplate required is
actually pretty minimal, and I'd like to have a couple of platforms to
work with before actually settling on what the helpers need to look
like.
>
> > > I don't *think* this change will affect anything in this particular
> > > patch series, but if it does then let me know and I'll help you work out
> > > how to fix it using a bus notifier.
>
> > Oh, wait, spoke too soon. You do add a regulator in this series, so
> > this change will require a fixup. The solution is to register an
> > bus_notifier to the spi bus type before you start registering devices.
>
> > It also requires deferring the musb_hdrc.1 and tps6116x registrations
> > until the bus_notifier callback gets called with an indication that
> > the regulator is bound. It will look something like this:
>
> Did you come up with a way of handling situations like cpufreq where we
> have no device to wait for?
Haven't dug into it yet.
g.
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-15 19:12 [PATCH v5 00/12] tnetv107x ssp drivers Cyril Chemparathy
[not found] ` <1289848334-8695-1-git-send-email-cyril-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2010-11-15 19:12 ` [PATCH v5 01/12] misc: add driver for sequencer serial port Cyril Chemparathy
[not found] ` <1289848334-8695-2-git-send-email-cyril-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2010-11-16 7:10 ` Grant Likely
[not found] ` <20101116071047.GE4074-MrY2KI0G/OVr83L8+7iqerDks+cytr/Z@public.gmane.org>
2010-11-16 16:15 ` Cyril Chemparathy
[not found] ` <4CE2AE3C.4040805-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2010-11-16 20:35 ` Grant Likely
[not found] ` <AANLkTik76EY8Xh01YP2Tep6k1ETPO+3idmNuk3pVikJG-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-11-16 21:19 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2010-11-16 22:23 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
[not found] ` <20101116222340.GF21926-l+eeeJia6m9vn6HldHNs0ANdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2010-11-16 23:57 ` Grant Likely
2010-11-15 19:12 ` [PATCH v5 02/12] davinci: add tnetv107x ssp platform device Cyril Chemparathy
2010-11-15 19:12 ` [PATCH v5 03/12] davinci: add ssp config for tnetv107x evm board Cyril Chemparathy
2010-11-15 19:12 ` [PATCH v5 04/12] spi: add ti-ssp spi master driver Cyril Chemparathy
2010-11-15 21:59 ` Ryan Mallon
[not found] ` <1289848334-8695-5-git-send-email-cyril-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2010-11-16 7:22 ` Grant Likely
[not found] ` <20101116072225.GF4074-MrY2KI0G/OVr83L8+7iqerDks+cytr/Z@public.gmane.org>
2010-11-16 7:47 ` Grant Likely
2010-11-16 11:34 ` Mark Brown
[not found] ` <20101116113409.GH3338-GFdadSzt00ze9xe1eoZjHA@public.gmane.org>
2010-11-16 20:45 ` Grant Likely [this message]
[not found] ` <20101116204554.GB5016-MrY2KI0G/OVr83L8+7iqerDks+cytr/Z@public.gmane.org>
2010-11-16 22:48 ` Mark Brown
[not found] ` <AANLkTi=utWumLKo9QVWXpkC8WxpgaNJJs+dj=pa2eq-q-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-11-17 0:17 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2010-11-17 13:31 ` Mark Brown
[not found] ` <20101117133136.GA19488-HF5t3jzXg/6ND3a5+9QAFujbO/Zr0HzV@public.gmane.org>
2010-11-17 15:25 ` David Brownell
[not found] ` <781931.83221.qm-g47maUHHHF+ORdMXk8NaZPu2YVrzzGjVVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2010-11-17 17:54 ` Cyril Chemparathy
[not found] ` <4CE31F0E.7050103-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2010-11-17 16:11 ` Grant Likely
[not found] ` <20101117161130.GC5757-MrY2KI0G/OVr83L8+7iqerDks+cytr/Z@public.gmane.org>
2010-11-17 17:23 ` Mark Brown
2010-11-17 17:35 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2010-11-18 5:46 ` Greg KH
2010-11-25 23:32 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-11-16 14:19 ` David Brownell
2010-11-15 19:12 ` [PATCH v5 05/12] davinci: add spi devices on tnetv107x evm Cyril Chemparathy
2010-11-15 19:12 ` [PATCH v5 06/12] regulator: add driver for tps6524x regulator Cyril Chemparathy
2010-11-15 19:12 ` [PATCH v5 07/12] davinci: add tnetv107x evm regulators Cyril Chemparathy
2010-11-15 19:12 ` [PATCH v5 08/12] gpio: add ti-ssp gpio driver Cyril Chemparathy
[not found] ` <1289848334-8695-9-git-send-email-cyril-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2010-11-15 22:38 ` Ryan Mallon
[not found] ` <4CE1B651.1060006-7Wk5F4Od5/oYd5yxfr4S2w@public.gmane.org>
2010-11-16 19:38 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2010-11-15 19:12 ` [PATCH v5 09/12] davinci: add tnetv107x evm ti-ssp gpio device Cyril Chemparathy
2010-11-15 19:12 ` [PATCH v5 10/12] backlight: add support for tps6116x controller Cyril Chemparathy
2010-11-15 19:12 ` [PATCH v5 11/12] davinci: add tnetv107x evm backlight device Cyril Chemparathy
2010-11-15 19:12 ` [PATCH v5 12/12] davinci: add tnetv107x evm i2c eeprom device Cyril Chemparathy
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