Re: [patch -mm 03/20] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: addplatforn_device for use w dev_dbg

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Jun 20 2006 - 01:21:08 EST


On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 12:25:08 -0600
Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 3/20. patch.platform-dev-2
>
> Add a platform-device to scx200_gpio, and use its struct device dev
> member (ie: devp) in dev_dbg() once.
>
> There are 2 alternatives here (Im soliciting guidance/commentary):
>
> - use isa_device, if/when its added to the kernel.
>
> - alter scx200.c to EXPORT_GPL its private devp so that both
> scx200_gpio, and the (to be added) nsc_gpio module can use it.
> Since the available devp is in 'grandparent', this seems like
> too much 'action at a distance'.
>
>
> @@ -121,12 +126,20 @@ static int __init scx200_gpio_init(void)
> int rc, i;
> dev_t dev = MKDEV(major, 0);
>
> - printk(KERN_DEBUG NAME ": NatSemi SCx200 GPIO Driver\n");
> -
> if (!scx200_gpio_present()) {
> printk(KERN_ERR NAME ": no SCx200 gpio present\n");
> return -ENODEV;
> }
> +
> + /* support dev_dbg() with pdev->dev */
> + pdev = platform_device_alloc(DEVNAME, 0);
> + if (!pdev)
> + return -ENODEV;

-ENOMEM would be more accurate.

> + rc = platform_device_add(pdev);
> + if (rc)
> + goto undo_platform_device_add;

If the platform_device_add() didn't work, I don't think we need to undo it?

> if (major)
> rc = register_chrdev_region(dev, num_devs, "scx200_gpio");
> else {
> @@ -134,29 +147,31 @@ static int __init scx200_gpio_init(void)
> major = MAJOR(dev);
> }
> if (rc < 0) {
> - printk(KERN_ERR NAME ": SCx200 chrdev_region: %d\n", rc);
> - return rc;
> + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "SCx200 chrdev_region err: %d\n", rc);
> + goto undo_platform_device_add;
> }
> scx200_devices = kzalloc(num_devs * sizeof(struct cdev), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!scx200_devices) {
> rc = -ENOMEM;
> - goto fail_malloc;
> + goto undo_chrdev_region;
> }
> for (i = 0; i < num_devs; i++) {
> struct cdev *cdev = &scx200_devices[i];
> cdev_init(cdev, &scx200_gpio_fops);
> cdev->owner = THIS_MODULE;
> - cdev->ops = &scx200_gpio_fops;
> rc = cdev_add(cdev, MKDEV(major, i), 1);
> - /* Fail gracefully if need be */
> + /* tolerate 'minor' errors */
> if (rc)
> - printk(KERN_ERR NAME "Error %d on minor %d", rc, i);
> + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Error %d on minor %d", rc, i);
> }
>
> - return 0; /* succeed */
> + return 0; /* succeed */
>
> -fail_malloc:
> - unregister_chrdev_region(dev, num_devs);
> +undo_chrdev_region:
> + unregister_chrdev_region(dev, num_devs);

needs a tab.

> +undo_platform_device_add:
> + platform_device_put(pdev);
> + kfree(pdev); /* undo platform_device_alloc */
> return rc;
> }
>
> @@ -164,6 +179,9 @@ static void __exit scx200_gpio_cleanup(v
> {
> kfree(scx200_devices);
> unregister_chrdev_region(MKDEV(major, 0), num_devs);
> + platform_device_put(pdev);
> + platform_device_unregister(pdev);
> + /* kfree(pdev); */
> }

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