Re: [PATCH v2 5/9] mfd: mfd-core: Remove mfd_clone_cell()

[Daniel Thompson]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 11:58:18AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> Providing a subsystem-level API helper seems over-kill just to save a
> few lines of C-code.  Previous commits saw us convert mfd_clone_cell()'s
> only user over to use a more traditional style of MFD child-device
> registration.  Now we can remove the superfluous helper from the MFD API.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  drivers/mfd/mfd-core.c   | 33 ---------------------------------
>  include/linux/mfd/core.h | 18 ------------------
>  2 files changed, 51 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/mfd-core.c b/drivers/mfd/mfd-core.c
> index 23276a80e3b4..8126665bb2d8 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/mfd-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/mfd-core.c
> @@ -382,38 +382,5 @@ int devm_mfd_add_devices(struct device *dev, int id,
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(devm_mfd_add_devices);
>  
> -int mfd_clone_cell(const char *cell, const char **clones, size_t n_clones)
> -{
> -	struct mfd_cell cell_entry;
> -	struct device *dev;
> -	struct platform_device *pdev;
> -	int i;
> -
> -	/* fetch the parent cell's device (should already be registered!) */
> -	dev = bus_find_device_by_name(&platform_bus_type, NULL, cell);
> -	if (!dev) {
> -		printk(KERN_ERR "failed to find device for cell %s\n", cell);
> -		return -ENODEV;
> -	}
> -	pdev = to_platform_device(dev);
> -	memcpy(&cell_entry, mfd_get_cell(pdev), sizeof(cell_entry));
> -
> -	WARN_ON(!cell_entry.enable);
> -
> -	for (i = 0; i < n_clones; i++) {
> -		cell_entry.name = clones[i];
> -		/* don't give up if a single call fails; just report error */
> -		if (mfd_add_device(pdev->dev.parent, -1, &cell_entry,
> -				   cell_entry.usage_count, NULL, 0, NULL))
> -			dev_err(dev, "failed to create platform device '%s'\n",
> -					clones[i]);
> -	}
> -
> -	put_device(dev);
> -
> -	return 0;
> -}
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(mfd_clone_cell);
> -
>  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Ian Molton, Dmitry Baryshkov");
> diff --git a/include/linux/mfd/core.h b/include/linux/mfd/core.h
> index b43fc5773ad7..bd8c0e089164 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mfd/core.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mfd/core.h
> @@ -86,24 +86,6 @@ struct mfd_cell {
>  extern int mfd_cell_enable(struct platform_device *pdev);
>  extern int mfd_cell_disable(struct platform_device *pdev);
>  
> -/*
> - * "Clone" multiple platform devices for a single cell. This is to be used
> - * for devices that have multiple users of a cell.  For example, if an mfd
> - * driver wants the cell "foo" to be used by a GPIO driver, an MTD driver,
> - * and a platform driver, the following bit of code would be use after first
> - * calling mfd_add_devices():
> - *
> - * const char *fclones[] = { "foo-gpio", "foo-mtd" };
> - * err = mfd_clone_cells("foo", fclones, ARRAY_SIZE(fclones));
> - *
> - * Each driver (MTD, GPIO, and platform driver) would then register
> - * platform_drivers for "foo-mtd", "foo-gpio", and "foo", respectively.
> - * The cell's .enable/.disable hooks should be used to deal with hardware
> - * resource contention.
> - */
> -extern int mfd_clone_cell(const char *cell, const char **clones,
> -		size_t n_clones);
> -
>  /*
>   * Given a platform device that's been created by mfd_add_devices(), fetch
>   * the mfd_cell that created it.
> -- 
> 2.17.1
>