Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] hwspinlock: sun8i: add Allwinner sun8i HardWare Spinlock

[Corentin LABBE]

Hello

Thanks for your review, I will fix all your reports for next version.

On 12/08/2016 21:06, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> On Fri 12 Aug 04:46 PDT 2016, LABBE Corentin wrote:
> 
>> Add hwspinlock support for the Allwinner Hardware Spinlock device
>> present on the A83T, H3 and A64 SoCs.
>>
>> This Hardware Spinlock device provides hardware assistance
>> for synchronization between the multiple processors in the system.
>>
> [..]
>> +		goto clk_fail;
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	dev_info(&pdev->dev, "Sun8i hwspinlock driver loaded with %d locks\n",
>> +		 priv->num_locks);
> 
> Please don't advertise the driver on success.
> 

I was doing that because datasheet specify only 32 slot, but later a register give a possibility of more slots.
Perhaps its better to advertise only for uncommon hardware (slot > 32) ?

Regards

LABBE Corentin