Re: [PATCH 2/3] ARM: mxs: add gpio-mxs platform devices

[Shawn Guo]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 04:23:40PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 20 May 2011 16:03:17 Shawn Guo wrote:
> > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:23:00PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > 
> > > I know it's tempting to use macros for these, but I think it obscures
> > > the code a lot, especially when you use them to concatenate identifier
> > > names. Why not just do:
> > > 
> > The pattern is being widely used in mxc/mxs platform device codes.
> > If you are not extremely unhappy about this, I would leave it as it
> > is to keep consistency.
> 
> I think it's a real pain to do it like this, and we need to start
> at some point cleaning up the mess. Why not start now?
> 
OK

> > > > +
> > > > +	return mxs_add_platform_device("mxs-gpio", data->id,
> > > > +					res, ARRAY_SIZE(res), NULL, 0);
> > > > +}
> > > 
> > > mxs_add_platform_device doesn't set the parent pointer correctly, I think you
> > > should either fix that or open-code the platform device creation to do it
> > > right.
> > > 
> > I see the following in drivers/base/platform.c, function
> > platform_device_add():
> > 
> >         if (!pdev->dev.parent)
> >                 pdev->dev.parent = &platform_bus;
> > 
> > So we are fine?
> 
> No, this would put all gpio devices below the top-level /sys/devices/platform
> directory, where they certainly don't belong. Please find a proper
> place and put them there.
> 
Understood.  Will do.

-- 
Regards,
Shawn

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