From: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
To: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
andy.shevchenko@gmail.com, michael@walle.cc, robh+dt@kernel.org,
broonie@kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
linus.walleij@linaro.org, linux@roeck-us.net,
andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, robin.murphy@arm.com,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mfd: core: Make a best effort attempt to match devices with the correct of_nodes
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 11:09:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3aa3c8ad-4e6a-9b9b-be58-bd9da5a0fb0a@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200622080913.GO954398@dell>
On 2020-06-22 03:09, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jun 2020, Lee Jones wrote:
>
>> Currently, when a child platform device (sometimes referred to as a
>> sub-device) is registered via the Multi-Functional Device (MFD) API,
>> the framework attempts to match the newly registered platform device
>> with its associated Device Tree (OF) node. Until now, the device has
>> been allocated the first node found with an identical OF compatible
>> string. Unfortunately, if there are, say for example '3' devices
>> which are to be handled by the same driver and therefore have the same
>> compatible string, each of them will be allocated a pointer to the
>> *first* node.
>
> Any more reviews/comments before I apply this?
>
Yes, outstanding issues, so please do not apply.
Shortly after you sent this email, you sent a reply to one of my
earlier emails in this thread. I have replied to that email,
so we still have an ongoing conversation where we are trying
to resolve my understanding of the problem and whether the
solution is appropriate.
-Frank
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-22 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-11 19:10 [PATCH v2 1/3] mfd: core: Make a best effort attempt to match devices with the correct of_nodes Lee Jones
2020-06-11 19:10 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] mfd: core: Fix formatting of MFD helpers Lee Jones
2020-06-12 12:27 ` Frank Rowand
2020-06-11 19:10 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] mfd: core: Add OF_MFD_CELL_REG() helper Lee Jones
2020-06-12 12:28 ` Frank Rowand
2020-06-12 12:26 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mfd: core: Make a best effort attempt to match devices with the correct of_nodes Frank Rowand
2020-06-15 1:19 ` Frank Rowand
2020-06-15 9:26 ` Lee Jones
2020-06-18 17:34 ` Frank Rowand
2020-06-22 8:50 ` Lee Jones
2020-06-22 14:32 ` Frank Rowand
2020-06-22 14:35 ` Frank Rowand
2020-06-22 15:10 ` Lee Jones
2020-06-22 18:01 ` Frank Rowand
2020-06-22 18:04 ` Frank Rowand
2020-06-22 19:11 ` Lee Jones
2020-06-22 22:23 ` Frank Rowand
2020-06-23 1:17 ` Frank Rowand
2020-06-23 1:37 ` Frank Rowand
2020-06-23 6:47 ` Lee Jones
2020-06-23 17:55 ` Frank Rowand
2020-06-23 19:59 ` Lee Jones
2020-06-23 22:33 ` Frank Rowand
2020-06-24 7:46 ` Lee Jones
2020-06-24 15:51 ` Frank Rowand
2020-06-24 16:14 ` Lee Jones
2020-06-24 16:25 ` Frank Rowand
2020-06-22 8:09 ` Lee Jones
2020-06-22 16:09 ` Frank Rowand [this message]
2020-06-22 16:53 ` Lee Jones
2020-06-23 22:21 ` Frank Rowand
2020-06-24 6:45 ` Lee Jones
2020-06-23 23:03 ` Frank Rowand
2020-06-24 6:41 ` Lee Jones
2020-06-24 7:47 ` Michael Walle
2020-06-24 8:23 ` Lee Jones
2020-06-24 9:19 ` Michael Walle
2020-06-24 11:24 ` Lee Jones
2020-06-11 19:12 Lee Jones
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