[PATCH v10 05/18] OMAP2, 3 DSS2 Change driver name to omap_display

[Cousson, Benoit]

On 2/28/2011 3:06 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 02:38:32PM +0100, Cousson, Benoit wrote:
>> On 2/28/2011 1:13 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 02:10:26PM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 05:36 -0600, Cousson, Benoit wrote:
>>>>> Cannot you use a device hierarchy then to do that?
>>>>>     omap_dss/core
>>>>>     omap_dss/dsi
>>>>>     omap_dss/venc
>>>>>
>>>>> This is moreover the way the HW is done.
>>>>
>>>> Hmm, how would that work? The devices are platform devices, and they
>>>> have a unique global name, which is used to match the driver for the
>>>> device.
>>>
>>> And not forgetting that '/' is not permitted in device or driver names.
>>
>> I was not really considering naming the device with a '/'. The idea is
>> that the devices will not longer be flat platform devices but something
>> like dss devices that will have have a omap_dss parent.
>>
>> I do not know if that makes sense to store some kind of hierarchy in the
>> device model, but encoding the hierarchy in the name like it is proposed
>> looks like a hack to me.
> 
> Try:
> 
> tree -d /sys/devices/pci0000\:00
> 
> on your PC, taking special note of how pci-to-pci bridges are handled.

Here it is, but I'm not sure to understand how it is really done :-(

/sys/devices/pci0000:00
├── 0000:00:00.0
│   ├── firmware_node -> ../../LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/PNP0C02:00
│   ├── power
│   └── subsystem -> ../../../bus/pci
├── 0000:00:02.0
│   ├── 0000:00:02.0:pcie01
│   │   ├── power
│   │   └── subsystem -> ../../../../bus/pci_express
│   ├── 0000:00:02.0:pcie02
│   │   ├── driver -> ../../../../bus/pci_express/drivers/aer
│   │   ├── power
│   │   └── subsystem -> ../../../../bus/pci_express
│   ├── 0000:06:00.0
│   │   ├── 0000:06:00.0:pcie12
│   │   │   ├── power
│   │   │   └── subsystem -> ../../../../../bus/pci_express
│   │   ├── 0000:07:00.0
│   │   │   ├── 0000:07:00.0:pcie22
│   │   │   │   ├── power
│   │   │   │   └── subsystem -> ../../../../../../bus/pci_express
│   │   │   ├── 0000:08:00.0
│   │   │   │   ├── 0000:09:00.0
│   │   │   │   │   ├── driver -> ../../../../../../../bus/pci/drivers/bnx2
│   │   │   │   │   ├── net
│   │   │   │   │   │   └── eth1
│   │   │   │   │   │       ├── device -> ../../../0000:09:00.0
│   │   │   │   │   │       ├── power
│   │   │   │   │   │       ├── statistics
│   │   │   │   │   │       └── subsystem -> ../../../../../../../../../class/net
│   │   │   │   │   ├── power
│   │   │   │   │   └── subsystem -> ../../../../../../../bus/pci
│   │   │   │   ├── pci_bus
│   │   │   │   │   └── 0000:09
│   │   │   │   │       ├── device -> ../../../0000:08:00.0
│   │   │   │   │       ├── power
│   │   │   │   │       └── subsystem -> ../../../../../../../../class/pci_bus
│   │   │   │   ├── power
│   │   │   │   └── subsystem -> ../../../../../../bus/pci
│   │   │   ├── driver -> ../../../../../bus/pci/drivers/pcieport
│   │   │   ├── pci_bus
│   │   │   │   └── 0000:08
│   │   │   │       ├── device -> ../../../0000:07:00.0
│   │   │   │       ├── power
│   │   │   │       └── subsystem -> ../../../../../../../class/pci_bus
│   │   │   ├── power
│   │   │   └── subsystem -> ../../../../../bus/pci
...