linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V4 03/12] drivers: Add boot constraints core

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Message-ID: <20171213094227.GC13194@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 13 Dec 2017 10:42:27 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:     Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
        Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@...eaurora.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        robdclark@...il.com, s.hauer@...gutronix.de,
        l.stach@...gutronix.de, shawnguo@...nel.org, fabio.estevam@....com,
        nm@...com, xuwei5@...ilicon.com, robh+dt@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 03/12] drivers: Add boot constraints core

On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 07:18:51PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> Some devices are powered ON by the bootloader before the bootloader
> handovers control to Linux. It maybe important for those devices to keep
> working until the time a Linux device driver probes the device and
> reconfigure its resources.
> 
> A typical example of that can be the LCD controller, which is used by
> the bootloaders to show image(s) while the platform is booting into
> Linux. The LCD controller can be using some resources, like clk,
> regulators, PM domain, etc, that are shared between several devices.
> These shared resources should be configured to satisfy need of all the
> users. If another device's (X) driver gets probed before the LCD
> controller driver in this case, then it may end up reconfiguring these
> resources to ranges satisfying the current users (only device X) and
> that can make the LCD screen unstable.
> 
> This patch introduces the concept of boot-constraints, which will be set
> by the bootloaders and the kernel will satisfy them until the time
> driver for such a device is probed (successfully or unsuccessfully).
> 
> The list of boot constraint types is empty for now, and will be
> incrementally updated by later patches.
> 
> Only two routines are exposed by the boot constraints core for now:

I think we need some documentation somewhere on how to use this, right?

thanks,

greg k-h