[PATCHv8 03/13] I2C: OMAP: Remove reset at init

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Thu Jun 21 03:20:00 EDT 2012


* Shubhrajyoti <shubhrajyoti at ti.com> [120621 00:08]:
> On Wednesday 20 June 2012 03:59 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > See the comments regarding driver specific resets in hwmod code.
> you mean omap_hwmod.c
> >
> > The way to set this up is to have a shared inline function in
> > i2c-omap.h that both the driver and hwmod code can use.
> hwmod reset function uses oh (omap_hwmod).
> 
> How could the driver also pass oh ?
> Could we keep a local copy in driver data?
> > Eventually hwmod code will do the reset only in late initcall
> > if no driver is loaded for the device in question.
> 

There's no need for the driver to know anything about oh.
The driver just needs to know the iobase.

Tony



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