Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] regulator: helper routine to extractregulator_init_data

From: Shawn Guo
Date: Fri Oct 21 2011 - 04:13:15 EST


On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 05:39:32PM +0530, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
> On Thursday 20 October 2011 11:44 AM, Shawn Guo wrote:
> >On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:48:58AM +0530, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
> >>>Let's look at mc13892-regulator driver. There are 23 regulators defined
> >>>in array mc13892_regulators. Needless to say, there is a dev behind
> >>>mc13892-regulator driver. And when getting probed, this driver will
> >>>call regulator_register() to register those 23 regulators individually.
> >>>That said, for non-dt world, we have 1 + 23 'dev' with that 1 as the
> >>>parent of all other 23 'dev' (wrapped by regulator_dev). But with the
> >>>current DT implementation, we will have at least 1 + 23 * 2 'dev'.
> >>>These extra 23 'dev' is totally new with DT.
> >>>
> >>
> >>but thats only because the mc13892-regulator driver is implemeted in
> >>such a way that all the regulators on the platform are bundled in as
> >>*one* device.
> >
> >I did not look into too many regulator drivers, but I expect this is
> >way that most regulator drivers are implemented in. Having
> >mc13892-regulator being probed 23 times to register these 23 regulators
> >just makes less sense to me.
> >
> >>It would again depend on how you would pass these from
> >>the DT, if you indeed stick to the same way of bundling all regulators
> >>as one device from DT, the mc13892-regulator probe would just get called
> >>once and there would be one device associated, no?
> >>
> >Yes, I indeed would stick to the same way of bundling the registration
> >of all regulators with mc13892-regulator being probed once. The problem
> >I have with the current regulator core DT implementation is that it
> >assumes the device_node of rdev->dev (dev wrapped in regulator_dev) is
> >being attached to rdev->dev.parent rather than itself. Back to
> >mc13892-regulator example, that said, it requires the dev of
> >mc13892-regulator have the device_node of individual regulator attached
> >to. IOW, the current implementation forces mc13892-regulator to be
> >probed 23 times to register those 23 regulators. This is wrong to me.
>
> I think I now understand to some extent the problem that you seem to be
> reporting. It is mainly with drivers which bundle all regulators and
> pass them as one device and would want to do so with DT too.
>
> however I am still not clear on how what you seem to suggest would
> solve this problem. Note that not all drivers do it this way, and
> there are drivers where each regulator is considered as one device
> and I suspect they would remain that way with DT too. And hence we
> need to support both.
>
> Do you have any RFC patch/code which could explain better what you are
> suggesting we do here?
> >
Here is what I changed based on your patches. It only changes
drivers/regulator/core.c.

---8<-------
diff --git a/drivers/regulator/core.c b/drivers/regulator/core.c
index 9a5ebbe..8fe132d 100644
--- a/drivers/regulator/core.c
+++ b/drivers/regulator/core.c
@@ -1211,7 +1211,7 @@ static struct regulator *_regulator_get(struct device *dev, const char *id,
node = of_get_regulator(dev, id);
if (node)
list_for_each_entry(rdev, &regulator_list, list)
- if (node == rdev->dev.parent->of_node)
+ if (node == rdev->dev.of_node)
goto found;
}
list_for_each_entry(map, &regulator_map_list, list) {
@@ -2642,9 +2642,6 @@ struct regulator_dev *regulator_register(struct regulator_desc *regulator_desc,
regulator_desc->type != REGULATOR_CURRENT)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

- if (!init_data)
- return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
-
/* Only one of each should be implemented */
WARN_ON(regulator_desc->ops->get_voltage &&
regulator_desc->ops->get_voltage_sel);
@@ -2675,12 +2672,8 @@ struct regulator_dev *regulator_register(struct regulator_desc *regulator_desc,
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rdev->list);
BLOCKING_INIT_NOTIFIER_HEAD(&rdev->notifier);

- /* preform any regulator specific init */
- if (init_data->regulator_init) {
- ret = init_data->regulator_init(rdev->reg_data);
- if (ret < 0)
- goto clean;
- }
+ /* find device_node and attach it */
+ rdev->dev.of_node = of_find_node_by_name(NULL, regulator_desc->name);

/* register with sysfs */
rdev->dev.class = &regulator_class;
@@ -2693,6 +2686,20 @@ struct regulator_dev *regulator_register(struct regulator_desc *regulator_desc,
goto clean;
}

+ if (!init_data) {
+ /* try to get init_data from device tree */
+ init_data = of_get_regulator_init_data(&rdev->dev);
+ if (!init_data)
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+ }
+
+ /* preform any regulator specific init */
+ if (init_data->regulator_init) {
+ ret = init_data->regulator_init(rdev->reg_data);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ goto clean;
+ }
+
dev_set_drvdata(&rdev->dev, rdev);

/* set regulator constraints */
@@ -2719,7 +2726,7 @@ struct regulator_dev *regulator_register(struct regulator_desc *regulator_desc,
node = of_get_regulator(dev, supply);
if (node)
list_for_each_entry(r, &regulator_list, list)
- if (node == r->dev.parent->of_node)
+ if (node == r->dev.of_node)
goto found;
}

------->8---

And my dts file looks like something below.

ecspi@70010000 { /* ECSPI1 */
fsl,spi-num-chipselects = <2>;
cs-gpios = <&gpio3 24 0>, /* GPIO4_24 */
<&gpio3 25 0>; /* GPIO4_25 */
status = "okay";

pmic: mc13892@0 {
#address-cells = <1>;
#size-cells = <0>;
compatible = "fsl,mc13892";
spi-max-frequency = <6000000>;
reg = <0>;
mc13xxx-irq-gpios = <&gpio0 8 0>; /* GPIO1_8 */

regulators {
sw1reg: mc13892_sw1 {
regulator-min-uV = <600000>;
regulator-max-uV = <1375000>;
regulator-change-voltage;
regulator-boot-on;
regulator-always-on;
};

sw2reg: mc13892_sw2 {
regulator-min-uV = <900000>;
regulator-max-uV = <1850000>;
regulator-change-voltage;
regulator-boot-on;
regulator-always-on;
};

......
};

leds {
......
};

buttons {
......
};
};

flash: at45db321d@1 {
......
};
};
};

--
Regards,
Shawn

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