Re: [RFC PATCH] mfd: arizona: Update device tree regulator bindings

[Mark Brown]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 03:11:37PM +0100, Charles Keepax wrote:

> There is currently only one other MFD driver (tps65910) which defines
> the GPIOs on the main MFD node as we do in the Arizona driver and it
> uses the 'hack' that I suggested in my first email of copying the
> of_node.

> tps65910_gpio->gpio_chip.of_node = tps65910->dev->of_node;

Look where it's copying it to - this isn't the hack you were suggesting
before.  What you were suggesting before was setting the of_node of the
child struct device which is a managed thing that the driver core knows
about, the device is the owner of the of_node hanging off it.  You would
end up with the same of_node referenced from two struct devices which
isn't clever.  The above is putting a pointer into the gpio_chip which
is just telling gpiolib that it should use this of_node when it needs
one, gpiolib won't try and lifecycle manage the of_node.

> Looking around there seem to be quite a few drivers that copy
> of_node pointers like this are we sure this isn't an acceptable
> solution? I mean the arizona driver we know the components will
> always be loaded as part of the MFD and thus will be freed before
> the parent node.

It's fine to reference an of_node, that's obviously something that will
need to happen at some point in order to do anything useful with the
data.

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