RE: [PATCH v3] mfd: syscon: Decouple syscon interface from platform devices

From: Pankaj Dubey
Date: Wed Sep 17 2014 - 23:27:20 EST


+CC: Dong Aisheng

Hi Arnd,

On Wednesday, September 17, 2014, Arnd Bergmann wrote,
> > V2 of this patchset and related discussion can be found here [1].
> >
> > Changes since v2:
> > - Added back platform device support from syscon, with one change that
> > syscon will not be probed for DT based platform.
> > - Added back syscon_regmap_lookup_by_pdevname API so that non-DT base
> > users of syscon will not be broken.
> > - Removed unwanted change in syscon.h.
> > - Modified Signed-off-by list, added Suggested-by of Tomasz Figa and
> > Arnd Bergmann.
> > - Added Tested-by of Vivek Gautam for testing on Exynos platform.
>
> Looks fine. Provided you can figure out the problem that Dong Aisheng
reported,
> please add my
>
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>

Thanks.
After he reported I have again done code walk-through of regmap_init_mmio
and
could not see any such fatal error. At the same time I have replied to Dong
Aisheng,
asking for more details and waiting for his reply.

> > -}
> > +static struct syscon *of_syscon_register(struct device_node *np);
> >
>
> One minor comment: please avoid doing forward declarations of local
functions. It
> took me a while to understand what is going on because I expect all
functions to be
> ordered such that they only get called by functions below, and don't need
this.
>
> Just move of_syscon_register() here directly.
>

OK, I will remove forward declaration of "of_syscon_register" and respin
patch once again.

> Arnd

Thanks,
Pankaj Dubey

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