linux-kernel - Re: [RFT v3 06/14] regulator: max77802: Remove support for board files

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Date:	Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:10:37 +0100
From:	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>
To:	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@...labora.co.uk>
Cc:	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@...sung.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
	Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [RFT v3 06/14] regulator: max77802: Remove support for board files

On czw, 2014-10-30 at 12:50 +0100, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> Hello Krzysztof,
> 
> On 10/30/2014 12:20 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> >  static int max77802_pmic_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >  {
> >  	struct max77686_dev *iodev = dev_get_drvdata(pdev->dev.parent);
> > -	struct max77686_platform_data *pdata = dev_get_platdata(iodev->dev);
> >  	struct max77802_regulator_prv *max77802;
> > -	int i, ret = 0, val;
> > +	int i, val;
> >  	struct regulator_config config = { };
> >  
> > -	/* This is allocated by the MFD driver */
> > -	if (!pdata) {
> > -		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "no platform data found for regulator\n");
> > -		return -ENODEV;
> > -	}
> > -
> >  	max77802 = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev,
> >  				sizeof(struct max77802_regulator_prv),
> >  				GFP_KERNEL);
> >  	if (!max77802)
> >  		return -ENOMEM;
> >  
> > -	if (iodev->dev->of_node) {
> > -		ret = max77802_pmic_dt_parse_pdata(pdev, pdata);
> > -		if (ret)
> > -			return ret;
> > +	if (!pdev->dev.of_node) {
> > +		/*
> > +		 * Backward DTS compatiblity where regulator driver had not
> > +		 * a compatible property for itself.
> > +		 */
> > +		if (!iodev->dev->of_node) {
> > +			dev_err(&pdev->dev, "No OF node for driver and its parent\n");
> > +			return -EINVAL;
> > +		}
> > +		pdev->dev.of_node = of_get_child_by_name(iodev->dev->of_node,
> > +								"regulators");
> > +		max77802->missing_of_node = true;
> >  	}
> 
> I may be missing something but I don't understand why a compatible string
> for the regulators sub-node is needed. Isn't enough to just fill the
> .regulators_node field in the struct regulator_desc? e.g:
> 
>     .regulators_node = of_match_ptr("regulators") for max77802
>     .regulators_node = of_match_ptr("voltage-regulators") for max77686
> 
> AFAIU this should be enough for the core to extract the init_data and will
> make your change much more simpler and you can drop patches 1-3 and 13-14.
> 
> Or maybe I misread the regulator_of_get_init_data() function?

The regulator_of_get_init_data() searches from dev->of_node or its child
node.

But dev->of_node is NULL.

That's why of_compatible is needed.

Best regards,
Krzysztof


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