netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 01/18] nvmem: add support for cell lookups

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Message-ID: <c460e73f-bfc4-abc6-e61c-26290632a3ab@linaro.org>
Date:   Mon, 16 Jul 2018 13:20:13 +0100
From:   Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>, Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@...aro.org>,
        David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/18] nvmem: add support for cell lookups



On 29/06/18 10:40, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski<bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
> 
> We can currently only register nvmem cells from device tree or by
> manually calling nvmem_add_cells(). The latter options however forces
> users to make sure that the nvmem provider with which the cells are
> associated is registered before the call.
> 
> This patch proposes a new solution inspired by other frameworks that
> offer resource lookups (GPIO, PWM etc.). It adds functions that allow
> machine code to register nvmem lookup which are later lazily used to
> add corresponding nvmem cells and remove them if no longer needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski<bgolaszewski@...libre.com>

Acked-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>