Re: [PATCH v6 5/8] soc: qcom: Add AOSS QMP communication driver

[Doug Anderson]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 9:13 PM Bjorn Andersson
<bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> +       if (of_property_read_bool(pdev->dev.of_node, "#power-domain-cells")) {
> +               qmp->pd_pdev = platform_device_register_data(&pdev->dev,
> +                                                            "aoss_qmp_pd",
> +                                                            PLATFORM_DEVID_NONE,
> +                                                            NULL, 0);
> +               if (IS_ERR(qmp->pd_pdev)) {
> +                       dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to register AOSS PD\n");

nit: not worth spinning just for this, but if you happen to spin you
could print the error number in your message.


> +                       ret = PTR_ERR(qmp->pd_pdev);
> +                       goto err_close_qmp;
> +               }
> +       }

As discussed in v5 I wonder if the complexity of a separate driver is
really worth it or if everything would be a lot easier to just link
the two ".c" files together.  Now that it's a full error case if
"aoss_qmp_pd" doesn't probe I'd vote for linking the two ".c" files
together, but part of that is because I don't really want to dig into
all the details of how you're supposed to call
platform_device_register_data() for sub-devices and double-checking
that you've got all the corner cases correct.

...NOTE: presumably if you just change it to a straight-up function
call then you can also get rid of the above "dev_err" since
(presumably) you'll know that the init code of aoss_qmp_pd will print
any relevant errors?


-Doug