Re: [PATCH 2/3] ARM: at91/tclib: move initialization from alloc to probe

From: Thierry Reding
Date: Wed Aug 20 2014 - 03:39:36 EST


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:07:51AM +0200, GaÃl PORTAY wrote:
> Move resource retrieval from atmel_tc_alloc to tc_probe to avoid lately
> reporting resource related issues when a TC block user request a TC block.
>
> Moreover, resources retrieval are usually done in the probe function,
> thus moving them add some consistency with other drivers.
>
> Initialization is done once, ie not every time a tc block is requested.
> If it fails, the device is not appended to the list of tc blocks.
>
> Furhermore, the device id is retrieved at probe as well, avoiding parsing
> DT every time the user requests of tc block.
>
> Signed-off-by: GaÃl PORTAY <gael.portay@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/clocksource/tcb_clksrc.c | 2 +-
> drivers/misc/atmel_tclib.c | 71 +++++++++++++---------------------------
> drivers/pwm/pwm-atmel-tcb.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/atmel_tc.h | 8 +++--
> 4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)

For the PWM driver part:

Acked-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx>

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