From: Trilok Soni <soni.trilok@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>,
me@felipebalbi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-input@vger.kernel.org, felipe.balbi@nokia.com,
Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mfd: twl4030: add twl4030-pwrbutton as our child
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:57:48 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d5443650907221227w72768b3cna145cea00f1baa05@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090227154220.7099f339.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Hi Andrew/Samuel,
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Andrew Morton<akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:20:56 -0800
> David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:
>
>> On Friday 27 February 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > What has gone wrong here?
>> > >
>> > > Not much I can see. __It's registering a platform_device,
>> > > but only if it could be used on this system.
>> >
>> > Again, that all gets fixed if this is done the right way around. __Run
>> > your probe function. __If the hardware is there, register with the core
>> > and all the nodes appear. __If the hardware is not present: bale.
>>
>> Right. If there's no button hooked up to its "power button"
>> signal, don't register that "twl4030-pwrbutton" node.
>>
>>
>> > The design of the whole subsystem appears to be upside down :(
>>
>> You seem to be missing something. Is it only the lack of that
>> tweak Felipe sent?
>
> I generally just delete unchangelogged patches.
>
> <goes back and finds it>
>
>
> That doesn't address the problem at all. A function called
> "add_children" just shouldn't exist. The general kernel design is for
> client drivers to register themselves with the core, so the core does
> not have any hard-wired knowledge of any client drivers.
>
> IOW, twl4030_pwrbutton_probe() should call into twl4030-core,
> registering the powerbutton driver.
>
Reviving this very old thread.
Andrew,
It seems that every driver under "mfd" is following the more or less
approach like twl4030, where the core driver is creating sub-device
driver's platform devices based on either some conditions like
platform data for that sub-device driver is available or not, or
sub-device array with it's "name" and "id" is passed from arch/ board
files.
Samuel,
I don't see any further discussion of points raised by Andrew in this driver.
--
---Trilok Soni
http://triloksoni.wordpress.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/triloksoni
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-22 19:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 106+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-27 19:28 [PATCH 1/2] input: misc: add twl4030-pwrbutton driver Felipe Balbi
2009-02-27 19:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] mfd: twl4030: add twl4030-pwrbutton as our child Felipe Balbi
2009-02-27 20:36 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-27 21:58 ` David Brownell
2009-02-27 22:09 ` Felipe Balbi
2009-02-27 22:12 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-27 23:20 ` David Brownell
2009-02-27 23:42 ` Andrew Morton
2009-07-22 19:27 ` Trilok Soni [this message]
2009-07-22 22:25 ` David Brownell
2009-02-27 20:33 ` [PATCH 1/2] input: misc: add twl4030-pwrbutton driver Andrew Morton
2009-02-27 20:37 ` Felipe Balbi
2009-02-27 21:50 ` lockdep and threaded IRQs (was: [PATCH 1/2] input: misc: add twl4030-pwrbutton driver) David Brownell
2009-02-27 22:09 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-27 23:18 ` lockdep and threaded IRQs (was: ...) David Brownell
2009-02-27 23:32 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-28 0:01 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-28 2:30 ` David Brownell
2009-02-28 2:39 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-28 4:46 ` David Brownell
2009-02-28 5:12 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-28 6:17 ` David Brownell
2009-02-28 11:13 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-02-28 12:16 ` David Brownell
2009-02-28 16:42 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-02-28 20:02 ` David Brownell
2009-02-28 20:55 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-02-28 21:13 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-02-28 22:37 ` David Brownell
2009-02-28 22:05 ` David Brownell
2009-03-01 9:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-03-01 22:54 ` David Brownell
2009-03-02 13:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-02 21:04 ` David Brownell
2009-03-02 21:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-02 21:29 ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-02 21:37 ` David Brownell
2009-03-02 21:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-02 22:09 ` David Brownell
2009-03-02 22:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-02 22:40 ` David Brownell
2009-03-02 22:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-02 23:29 ` David Brownell
2009-03-03 7:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-02 22:46 ` lockdep and threaded IRQs David Miller
2009-03-02 22:57 ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-02 23:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-02 23:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-02 23:35 ` lockdep and threaded IRQs (was: ...) Alan Cox
2009-03-01 22:11 ` David Brownell
2009-02-28 11:48 ` lockdep and threaded IRQs Stefan Richter
2009-02-28 20:19 ` David Brownell
2009-02-28 21:10 ` Stefan Richter
2009-03-02 13:16 ` lockdep and threaded IRQs (was: ...) Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-02 22:10 ` David Brownell
2009-03-02 22:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-02 23:20 ` David Brownell
2009-03-02 23:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-02 23:42 ` David Brownell
2009-03-02 23:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-03 0:33 ` David Brownell
2009-03-03 0:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-03 2:37 ` David Brownell
2009-03-03 9:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-03 9:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-03 9:47 ` Alan Cox
2009-03-03 10:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-03 10:30 ` Alan Cox
2009-03-03 10:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-03 10:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-03 11:13 ` Alan Cox
2009-03-03 11:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-03 11:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-18 1:04 ` David Brownell
2009-03-18 2:00 ` David Brownell
2009-03-18 2:14 ` [patch/rfc 0/2] handle_threaded_irq() David Brownell
2009-03-18 2:19 ` [patch/rfc 1/2] GENIRQ: add handle_threaded_irq() flow handler David Brownell
2009-03-18 12:00 ` Felipe Balbi
2009-03-18 18:31 ` David Brownell
2009-03-18 18:32 ` Felipe Balbi
2009-03-18 2:22 ` [patch/rfc 2/2] twl4030: use new " David Brownell
2009-03-03 11:53 ` lockdep and threaded IRQs (was: ...) Thomas Gleixner
2009-03-05 2:49 ` David Brownell
2009-03-06 14:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-03-18 3:06 ` David Brownell
2009-03-02 23:48 ` David Brownell
2009-03-02 23:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-02 15:13 ` [PATCH] genirq: assert that irq handlers are indeed run in hardirq context Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-02 19:48 ` David Brownell
2009-03-02 22:01 ` [tip:irq/genirq] genirq: assert that irq handlers are indeed running " Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-02 23:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-10 7:11 ` Eric Miao
2009-04-10 9:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-02-28 11:20 ` lockdep and threaded IRQs Stefan Richter
2009-02-28 20:10 ` David Brownell
2009-02-28 5:51 ` [PATCH 1/2] input: misc: add twl4030-pwrbutton driver Trilok Soni
2009-02-28 12:05 ` [PATCH] mfd: twl4030: add twl4030-pwrbutton as our child Felipe Balbi
2009-02-28 22:23 ` [PATCH 1/2] input: misc: add twl4030-pwrbutton driver Dmitry Torokhov
2009-03-01 0:30 ` Felipe Balbi
2009-03-01 0:58 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-03-01 14:40 ` Felipe Balbi
2009-03-04 9:00 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-03-04 10:12 ` Felipe Balbi
2009-03-05 1:38 ` David Brownell
2009-03-05 23:54 ` David Brownell
2009-03-06 9:43 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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