Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] mfd: lm3533: Support initialization from Device Tree

[Bjorn Andersson]

On Wed 04 Jan 03:54 PST 2017, Lee Jones wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Dec 2016, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> 
> > From: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Implement support for initialization of the lm3533 driver core and
> > probing child devices from Device Tree.
> > 

[..]

> > @@ -512,6 +514,11 @@ static int lm3533_device_init(struct lm3533 *lm3533)
> >  	lm3533_device_bl_init(lm3533);
> >  	lm3533_device_led_init(lm3533);
> >  
> > +	if (lm3533->dev->of_node) {
> > +		of_platform_populate(lm3533->dev->of_node, NULL, NULL,
> > +				     lm3533->dev);
> > +	}
> 
> I think it's save to call of_platform_populate(), even if !of_node.
> It will just fail and return an error code, which you are ignoring
> anyway.
> 

I thought so too, but that's apparently how you trigger probing children
of the root node. So we're stuck with a conditional.

[..]

> >  static int lm3533_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c,
> >  					const struct i2c_device_id *id)
> >  {

[..]

> >  
> > +	if (i2c->dev.of_node) {
> 
> I'd prefer this check to be placed in lm3533_pdata_from_of_node().
> 
> Just return silently if !dev->of_node.
> 

I agree, will update this.

> > +		ret = lm3533_pdata_from_of_node(lm3533->dev);
> > +		if (ret < 0)
> > +			return ret;
> > +	}
> > +
> >  	return lm3533_device_init(lm3533);
> >  }
> >  

Regards,
Bjorn