Re: [RFC PATCH v2 06/10] spi: add support for ACPI reconfigure notifications

[Octavian Purdila]

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:37:57PM +0300, Octavian Purdila wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> > There's more code here now than I remember but this all looks *really*
>> > close to the DT code except for the OF_POPULATED flag that we set when
>> > things are instantiated in DT.  The duplication seems bad but the fact
>> > that we're missing the flag worries me...  do we have guarantees that
>> > ACPI won't double register?
>
>> We use the adev->flags.visited to check when a device has been already
>> enumerated, and we skip registering a new SPI slave in that case.
>
> OK, but the fact that I need to know that isn't exactly thrilling -
> that's really the issue with the not quite duplication here.  It's not
> just if the code works but also the maintainability.

I agree that this is unfortunate. I could not find a common path for
both device tree and ACPI. Perhaps when we remove of_node from struct
device and move to fwnode we could remove some duplication.

I can add a couple of comments around  acpi_device_enumerated() and
adev->flags.visited = true; to make it clear that we won't double
enumerate. Will that help?