[PATCH 1/4] i2c: adapter: register it's own device
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Fri Nov 2 05:24:19 EDT 2012
On 08:29 Fri 02 Nov , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 10:44:49AM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > so we can show the this of i2c busses
> > set the bus device as parent of all devices.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj at jcrosoft.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-imx.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
> > drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-omap.c | 30 +++++++++++++++---------------
> > drivers/i2c/i2c.c | 18 +++++++++++++++---
> > include/i2c/i2c.h | 2 +-
> > 4 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
> >
> > int i2c_add_numbered_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adapter)
> > {
> > - if (i2c_get_adapter(adapter->nr))
> > - return -EBUSY;
>
> If you remove this and instead depend on register_device bailing out
> later then you should change the error value register_device returns
> to -EBUSY. Currently it returns -EINVAL, -EBUSY seems much better here.
>
>
> > + int ret;
> > +
> > + adapter->dev.id = adapter->nr;
> > + strcpy(adapter->dev.name, "i2c");
> > +
> > + if (adapter->dev.parent)
> > + dev_add_child(adapter->dev.parent, &adapter->dev);
>
> We should push the dev_add_child to the driver core. Doing this here
> means that...
>
> > +
> > + ret = register_device(&adapter->dev);
> > + if (ret)
> > + return ret;
>
> ... the parents child list will be corrupted when register_device fails.
> At least w1 and mdiobus have the same problem. But ok, we can fix that
> later.
ok I'll take a look after the whole sam9x5 stuff will merged
Best Regards,
J.
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