linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 01/29] nvmem: add support for cell lookups

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Message-ID: <20180824170848.29594318@bbrezillon>
Date:   Fri, 24 Aug 2018 17:08:48 +0200
From:   Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...tlin.com>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/29] nvmem: add support for cell lookups

Hi Bartosz,

On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 10:04:58 +0200
Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl> wrote:

> +struct nvmem_cell_lookup {
> +	struct nvmem_cell_info	info;
> +	struct list_head	list;
> +	const char		*nvmem_name;
> +};

Hm, maybe I don't get it right, but this looks suspicious. Usually the
consumer lookup table is here to attach device specific names to
external resources.

So what I'd expect here is:

struct nvmem_cell_lookup {
	/* The nvmem device name. */
	const char *nvmem_name;

	/* The nvmem cell name */
	const char *nvmem_cell_name;

	/*
	 * The local resource name. Basically what you have in the
	 * nvmem-cell-names prop.
	 */
	const char *conid;
};

struct nvmem_cell_lookup_table {
	struct list_head list;

	/* ID of the consumer device. */
	const char *devid;

	/* Array of cell lookup entries. */
	unsigned int ncells;
	const struct nvmem_cell_lookup *cells;
};

Looks like your nvmem_cell_lookup is more something used to attach cells
to an nvmem device, which is NVMEM provider's responsibility not the
consumer one.

Regards,

Boris