Re: [PATCH v15 2/7] power: add power sequence library

[Peter Chen]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 11:48:05AM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> [...]
> 
> >> >
> >> > Unlike the MMC design, there is no dts entry to indicate whether this
> >> > device needs pwrseq or not at this design, it will only carry out power
> >> > on sequence after matching. So, return -EPROBE_DEFER may not work since
> >> > this device may never need pwrseq.
> >>
> >> Then, how will you really be able to fetch the correct pwrseq library
> >> instance for the device node?
> >>
> >> Suppose their is a *list* of pwrseq library instances available. In
> >> pwrseq_find_available_instance() you call of_match_node(table, np).
> >> The "table" there corresponds to the compatible for the pwrseq library
> >> and the np is the device node provided by the caller of
> >> of_pwrseq_on().
> >>
> >> Why is this match done?
> >
> > The compatible in table is from the source code, and the compatible in
> > np is from the dts. This is the current match way, I comment your
> > suggestion below.
> >
> >>
> >> Why can't the match be done before trying to fetch a library instance
> >
> > How? If there is no pwrseq instance, how can we do match?
> >
> >> and then in a second step, really try to fetch the instance? If only
> >> the second step fails, returning -EPROBE_DEFER can be done, no?
> >>
> >> BTW, I didn't compatible for the generic pwrseq library being
> >> documented in this series.
> 
> Seems like you need to update the DT documentation for the below
> compatible, which is used for the generic pwrseq library. Perhaps this
> is what puzzles me a bit on *why* the match is done.
> 
> +static const struct of_device_id generic_id_table[] = {
> +       { .compatible = "generic",},
> +       { /* sentinel */ }
> +};

Sorry, I should update this "generic" compatible at 1st binding-doc
patch.

> 
> [...]
> 
> >> >
> >> > This additional instance is used to store compatible information for
> >> > this pwrseq library, it is used for the next matching between device
> >> > and pwrseq library, it just likes we need the first pwrseq instance
> >> > registered at boot stage.
> >>
> >> Why can't the compatible information be a static table, known by the
> >> pwrseq core library?
> >>
> >> Then when of_pwrseq_on() is called, that static table is parsed and
> >> matched, then a corresponding pwrseq library instance tries to be
> >> fetched.
> >>
> >
> > So, you suggest allocating and registering pwrseq instance on the
> > demand? Eg, we maintain a power sequence static table, including
> > compatible and allocate function.
> 
> Yes, something like that.
> 
> >
> > static const struct pwrseq_match_table pwrseq_match_table_list[] = {
> >         { PWRSEQ_DEV(0x0204, 0x6025), .alloc_instance = pwrseq_AA_alloc_instance },
> >         { PWRSEQ_DEV(0x0204, 0x6026), .alloc_instance = pwrseq_BB_alloc_instance },
> >         { PWRSEQ_DEV(0xffff, 0xffff), .alloc_instance = pwrseq_generic_alloc_instance },
> 
> What does the  PWRSEQ_DEV() macro do?

In fact, this should be compatible string, I exampled it as USB vid,pid
wrongly.

> > Since the pwrseq_match_table_list is static, we can always do match, and
> > will not return -EPROBE_DEFER anymore, one problem for this is we need
> > always compile all pwrseq libraries. Any good suggestions?
> 
> You never returned -EPROBE_DEFER in the first case. That's why I complained. :-)
> 
> So, in case the OF match doesn't succeed, there are no reason to
> propagate an error, but instead just bail out and returning 0 to the
> caller.
> 
> If the OF match succeeds, it means the device requires a pwrseq
> library to be used. Then, pwrseq_XX_alloc_instance() will be called,
> on demand and which tries to fetch the resources (clocks, gpios etc).
> If any of those attempts fetching a resource fails, its corresponding
> error code should be propagated to the caller - including
> -EPROBE_DEFER.
> 
> Regarding the "always compile all pwrseq libraries"; no we don't need
> to do that. Instead we only need a to have a stub function for
> pwrseq_XX_alloc_instance, in case its corresponding Kconfig option is
> unset. That stub, should of course return an error code.
> 

I will have a updated version for your suggestion, thanks.

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Best Regards,
Peter Chen