linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] soc: bcm: iproc: Add Broadcom iProc IDM driver

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Date:   Mon, 9 Dec 2019 10:05:07 -0800
From:   Ray Jui <ray.jui@...adcom.com>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com,
        Rayagonda Kokatanur <rayagonda.kokatanur@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] soc: bcm: iproc: Add Broadcom iProc IDM driver



On 12/7/19 9:52 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/6/2019 5:15 PM, Ray Jui wrote:
>>>
>>> Did not you intend to drop the reference count on elog_np here?
>>>
>>
>> Sorry, I'm not following this comment. Could you please help to clarify
>> for me a bit more? Thanks!
> 
> I meant that you drop the reference count on 'np' but you called
> functions that incremented the reference count on 'elog_np', so maybe
> you are not doing the of_node_put() on the appropriate device_node
> reference?
> 

Okay thanks. I'll look into this in more details and make corrections if 
needed.

>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>> +static struct platform_driver iproc_idm_driver = {
>>>> +    .probe = iproc_idm_probe,
>>>
>>> Do not you need a remove function in order to unregister the sysfs file
>>> that you created in iproc_idm_dev_probe() to avoid bind/unbind (or
>>> rmmod/modprobe) to spit out an existing sysfs entry warning?
>>>
>>
>> This driver should never be compiled as a module. It's meant to be
>> always there to capture IDM bus timeouts.
>>
>> But you are right that I cannot prevent user from trying to unbind it
>> for whatever reason. I'll add a remove routine to take care of this.
> 
> You can also set suppress_bind_attrs to your platform_driver structure
> to prevent unbind/bind from happening.
> 

Great. This is what I'll do then. I meant to have this driver stays 
loaded/binded all the time once probed.

Thanks,

Ray