[PATCH v3 2/3] arm/tegra: Don't create duplicate gpio and pinmux devices

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Tue Oct 25 10:30:09 EDT 2011


On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 02:01:27PM +0200, Stephen Warren wrote:
> *_pinmux_init() register the GPIO and pinmux devices so that they're ready
> before any other device needs them.
> 
> *_pinmux_init() are also called by board-dt.c in order to set up the GPIO
> and pinmux configurations. In this case, if we register the devices, they
> end up being probed once due to this registration, and a second time due
> to a device-tree node (or vice-versa). The second probe fails since the
> memory regions are already requested. Besides, we don't actually want the
> duplicated devices.
> 
> To avoid this duplicate registration, modify *_pinmux_init() to check
> whether it's running on a DT machine. If not, register the pinmux devices.
> If so, don't register them.
> 
> Finally, modify board-dt.c to call the *_pinmux_init() after all devices have
> been instantiated from device-tree. This allows the GPIO and pinmux devices
> to be instantiated and initialized before calling functions to configure the
> hardware.
> 
> This has one disadvantage: The pinmux and GPIO initialization now happens
> after /all/ devices are instantiated, rather than after just gpio and
> pinmux but before anything else. So the correct HW configuration is not
> in place when e.g. the SD/MMC device is probed. Long-term, this should be
> solved by doing both:
> 
> a) Initializing the HW state from DT nodes during GPIO and pinmux device
>    probe.
> b) Using the deferred driver probe mechanism, so that drivers can defer
>    their probe until after the gpio and pinmux drivers have probed.
> 
> v2: s/int is_dt/bool is_dt/
> v3: Use of_machine_is_compatible inside *_pinmux_init() rather than passing
> an explicit parameter into the function from outside.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mach-tegra/board-dt.c               |   13 +++++++------
>  arch/arm/mach-tegra/board-harmony-pinmux.c   |    6 +++++-
>  arch/arm/mach-tegra/board-paz00-pinmux.c     |    6 +++++-
>  arch/arm/mach-tegra/board-seaboard-pinmux.c  |    5 ++++-
>  arch/arm/mach-tegra/board-trimslice-pinmux.c |    5 ++++-
>  5 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

This looks pretty good. Given the fact that current behavior is buggy,
merging it for 3.2 makes sense. Grant, you OK with that for the
prerequisite OF patch?


-Olof



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