linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] ARM: at91/tclib: move initialization from alloc to probe

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Date:	Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:39:29 +0200
From:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
To:	Gaël PORTAY <gael.portay@...il.com>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pwm@...r.kernel.org, Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>,
	Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@...osoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ARM: at91/tclib: move initialization from alloc to
 probe

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:07:51AM +0200, Gaël PORTAY wrote:
> Move resource retrieval from atmel_tc_alloc to tc_probe to avoid lately
> reporting resource related issues when a TC block user request a TC block.
> 
> Moreover, resources retrieval are usually done in the probe function,
> thus moving them add some consistency with other drivers.
> 
> Initialization is done once, ie not every time a tc block is requested.
> If it fails, the device is not appended to the list of tc blocks.
> 
> Furhermore, the device id is retrieved at probe as well, avoiding parsing
> DT every time the user requests of tc block.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gaël PORTAY <gael.portay@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c |  2 +-
>  drivers/misc/atmel_tclib.c       | 71 +++++++++++++---------------------------
>  drivers/pwm/pwm-atmel-tcb.c      |  2 +-
>  include/linux/atmel_tc.h         |  8 +++--
>  4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)

For the PWM driver part:

Acked-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>

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