[PATCH 07/12] mfd: syscon: Consider platform data a regmap config name

[Pawel Moll]

On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 11:27 +0000, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> Yeah, I gave up the idea to use the syscon_ids[] to separate devices for
> non-DT case.
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/drivers/mfd/syscon.c?id=5104d2656d4874c51868dc7182016e9501ec99ca
> Instead, I use a hard definition for pdev->id, so that the names of
> syscon-devices are different and can be obtained from the driver
> it uses with syscon_regmap_lookup_by_pdevname().

It is a sort-of-solution (I personally dislike magic numbers, but this
is a separate discussion) for a completely-non-DT case, where you can
guarantee limited number of syscon devices.

In my case I have a DT system, where some of the MFD devices *may*
register syscon cells... No way to enforce ordering.

> I understand this topic correct?

The main idea here is to attach a meaningful label to the syscon
regmaps. My example:

/ # ls -d1 /sys/kernel/debug/regmap/syscon.*
/sys/kernel/debug/regmap/syscon.0.auto
/sys/kernel/debug/regmap/syscon.4.auto
/sys/kernel/debug/regmap/syscon.5.auto

vs

/ # ls -d /sys/kernel/debug/regmap/syscon.*
/sys/kernel/debug/regmap/syscon.0.auto-sys_id
/sys/kernel/debug/regmap/syscon.4.auto-sys_misc
/sys/kernel/debug/regmap/syscon.5.auto-sys_procid

Of course one could also define syscon_regmap_lookup_by_label() (I don't
really need it right now so didn't go that way)

Pawel