Re: [PATCH 1/5] platform/chrome: cros_ec_lpc: Move mec_init/destroy to device probe/remove

[Tzung-Bi Shih]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 02:14:45PM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> Disregarding the weird global state hiding in this cros_ec_lpc_mec_*()
> stuff, it belongs in device probe/remove. We shouldn't assume we can
> access hardware resources when the device isn't attached to the driver.

It's also weird that cros_ec_lpc_mec_destroy() destroies a statically
allocated mutex[1].  How about let's remove it?

[1]: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.0/source/drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_lpc_mec.c#L152

> @@ -586,9 +591,6 @@ static int __init cros_ec_lpc_init(void)
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  	}
>  
> -	cros_ec_lpc_mec_init(EC_HOST_CMD_REGION0,
> -			     EC_LPC_ADDR_MEMMAP + EC_MEMMAP_SIZE);
> -
>  	/* Register the driver */
>  	ret = platform_driver_register(&cros_ec_lpc_driver);
>  	if (ret) {

There are 2 more cros_ec_lpc_mec_destroy()s need to be removed [2][3] though.

[2]: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.0/source/drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_lpc.c#L596
[3]: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.0/source/drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_lpc.c#L606