linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] pinctrl/nomadik: make independent of prcmu driver

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Message-ID: <509BE7C5.4030109@wwwdotorg.org>
Date:	Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:11:33 -0700
From:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
To:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	arm@...nel.org, Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>,
	Anmar Oueja <anmar.oueja@...aro.org>,
	Jonas Aaberg <jonas.aberg@...ricsson.com>,
	Loic Pallardy <loic.pallardy@...com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] pinctrl/nomadik: make independent of prcmu driver

On 11/08/2012 04:55 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> From: Jonas Aaberg <jonas.aberg@...ricsson.com>
> 
> Currently there are some unnecessary criss-cross
> dependencies between the PRCMU driver in MFD and a lot of
> other drivers, mainly because other drivers need to poke
> around in the PRCM register range.
> 
> In cases like this there are actually just a few select
> registers that the pinctrl driver need to read/modify/write,
> and it turns out that no other driver is actually using
> these registers, so there are no concurrency issues
> whatsoever.
> 
> So: don't let the location of the register range complicate
> things, just poke into these registers directly and skip
> a layer of indirection.

Do you actually need to store the run-time data in struct
nmk_pinctrl_soc_data too? I would have expected all the soc_data
pointers to remain const, and to store the runtime register pointer
somewhere else, and perhaps pass it as a separate parameter to the
relevant init functions; wouldn't that make the patch much smaller?
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