Re: [PATCHv9 03/18] TEMP: OMAP3xxx: hwmod data: add PRM hwmod

[Paul Walmsley]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Paul Walmsley wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Cousson, Benoit wrote:
> 
> > On 10/11/2011 1:26 AM, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> > > On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Cousson, Benoit wrote:
> > > 
> > > > In fact the device name does not have to match the hwmod name. So we 
> > > > can just create an "omap2_prm" omap_device for OMAP2, "omap3_prm" 
> > > > omap_device for OMAP3... That will allow the relevant PRM driver to 
> > > > be bound to the proper device.
> > > 
> > > Incidentally, given that we would be using the hwmod name and the version
> > > number to determine the appropriate omap_device name, what IP version
> > > numbers should we assign to these PRM IP blocks for different SoCs?
> > 
> > It can just be 1, 2 and 3... The idea is just to differentiate the IP for each
> > OMAP.
> 
> So those are basically arbitrary?  Something is not clear here.
> 
> In the current hwmod design, IP blocks with different interfaces were 
> intended to be uniquely identified by the hwmod name alone.  That is why 
> omap_hwmod_lookup() only takes a 'name' parameter.
> 
> If I understand what you want to do, you wish to change this to uniquely 
> identify them by a (name, interface version number) tuple.
> 
> I don't have a problem with this in theory, but it implies some changes to 
> the existing model.  Specifically:
> 
> - we'll need to add an interface version number to the struct omap_hwmod
> 
> - we'll need to modify omap_hwmod_lookup() to take an interface version 
> number
> 
> - the "ti,hwmod" DT binding that you proposed earlier will need to include 
> an interface version number

Hmm, reflecting on this further, is your intention to bind drivers to 
hwmods by the struct omap_hwmod_class instead?

If we define that "rev" field as the interface version number, that should 
probably work.

So then in C struct format, in a platform_device system, the mapping table 
would basically become

struct omap_hwmod_driver_map {
	const char *class_name;
	const u32 class_rev;
	const char *platform_device_name;
}

- Paul
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