RE: [PATCH V3 5/9] mfd: da9061: MFD core support

From: Steve Twiss
Date: Mon Nov 07 2016 - 10:25:13 EST


On 02 November 2016 14:29, Lee Jones wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Oct 2016, Steve Twiss wrote:
> > From: Steve Twiss <stwiss.opensource@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > @@ -475,7 +855,25 @@ static int da9062_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c,
> > return -EINVAL;
> > }
> >
> > - chip->regmap = devm_regmap_init_i2c(i2c, &da9062_regmap_config);
> > + switch (chip->chip_type) {
> > + case(COMPAT_TYPE_DA9061):
> > + cell = da9061_devs;
> > + cell_num = ARRAY_SIZE(da9061_devs);
> > + irq_chip = &da9061_irq_chip;
> > + config = &da9061_regmap_config;
> > + break;
> > + case(COMPAT_TYPE_DA9062):
> > + cell = da9062_devs;
> > + cell_num = ARRAY_SIZE(da9062_devs);
> > + irq_chip = &da9062_irq_chip;
> > + config = &da9062_regmap_config;
> > + break;
> > + default:
> > + dev_err(chip->dev, "Unrecognised chip type\n");
> > + return -ENODEV;
> > + }
>
> I very much dislike when MFD and OF functionality is mixed.
>
> In your case you can use da9062_get_device_type() to dynamically
> interrogate the device and register using the correct MFD cells that
> way.

Hi Lee,

It's the device tree that decides what the chip type is. It's not chip
interrogation in this case. The ordering dictates this I think: to access the
hardware ID register, a regmap definition is needed first. But because the
correct I2C register map requires a knowledge of what chip is being used,
it becomes a circular dependency.

To solve this dependency, I define the chip type (DA9061 or DA9062) in the
device tree and assign the correct regmap first before accessing any registers.

> > + chip->regmap = devm_regmap_init_i2c(i2c, config);
> > if (IS_ERR(chip->regmap)) {
> > ret = PTR_ERR(chip->regmap);
> > dev_err(chip->dev, "Failed to allocate register map: %d\n",
> > @@ -493,7 +891,7 @@ static int da9062_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c,
> >
> > ret = regmap_add_irq_chip(chip->regmap, i2c->irq,
> > IRQF_TRIGGER_LOW | IRQF_ONESHOT |IRQF_SHARED,
> > - -1, &da9062_irq_chip,
> > + -1, irq_chip,
>
> What is -1?

.. it's a request for an irq_base.
http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c#L477

Is there a reason I shouldn't be doing that?
There doesn't seem to be a #define anywhere, and using -1 seems
to be the standard in the kernel at the moment.

Regards,
Steve