Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] ARM: bcm2835: Add the Raspberry Pi firmware driver

From: Noralf TrÃnnes
Date: Thu May 28 2015 - 23:18:26 EST



Den 29.05.2015 02:07, skrev Eric Anholt:
This gives us a function for making mailbox property channel requests
of the firmware, which is most notable in that it will let us get and
set clock rates.
...
+/**
+ * rpi_firmware_property_list - Submit firmware property list
+ * @of_node: Pointer to the firmware Device Tree node.

Update kdoc to reflect change:
* @fw: Pointer to firmware structure

+ * @data: Buffer holding tags.
+ * @tag_size: Size of tags buffer.
+ *
+ * Submits a set of concatenated tags to the VPU firmware through the
+ * mailbox property interface.
+ *
+ * The buffer header and the ending tag are added by this function and
+ * don't need to be supplied, just the actual tags for your operation.
+ * See struct rpi_firmware_property_tag_header for the per-tag
+ * structure.
+ */
+int rpi_firmware_property_list(struct rpi_firmware *fw,
+ void *data, size_t tag_size)
+{
...

+/**
+ * rpi_firmware_property - Submit single firmware property
+ * @of_node: Pointer to the firmware Device Tree node.

Same:
* @fw: Pointer to firmware structure

+ * @tag: One of enum_mbox_property_tag.
+ * @tag_data: Tag data buffer.
+ * @buf_size: Buffer size.
+ *
+ * Submits a single tag to the VPU firmware through the mailbox
+ * property interface.
+ *
+ * This is a convenience wrapper around
+ * rpi_firmware_property_list() to avoid some of the
+ * boilerplate in property calls.
+ */
+int rpi_firmware_property(struct rpi_firmware *fw,
+ u32 tag, void *tag_data, size_t buf_size)
+{
...

+/*
+ * Returns the struct rpi_firmware if the firmware device is probed
+ * and available, otherwise NULL.
+ */

kdoc:
/**
* rpi_firmware_get - Get pointer to rpi_firmware structure.
* @of_node: Pointer to the firmware Device Tree node.
*
* Returns NULL is the firmware device is not ready.
*/

+struct rpi_firmware *rpi_firmware_get(struct device_node *firmware_node)
+{
+ struct platform_device *pdev = of_find_device_by_node(firmware_node);
+
+ if (!pdev)
+ return NULL;
+
+ if (!pdev->dev.driver)
+ return NULL;
+
+ if (!try_module_get(pdev->dev.driver->owner))
+ return NULL;
+

Sigh, I think I was wrong about suggesting try_module_get here. A module can't be
unloaded if another loaded module depends on one it's exported symbols.
So this firmware module can't be unloaded if a client module is loaded.
So it shouldn't be necessary.

+ return platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rpi_firmware_get);
+
+void rpi_firmware_put(struct rpi_firmware *fw)
+{
+ struct device *dev = fw->cl.dev;
+
+ module_put(dev->driver->owner);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rpi_firmware_put);

So rpi_firmware_put() won't be needed then, sorry.

However the API feels much better now with this change.


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