[RFC 01/18] mfd: syscon: Consider platform data a regmap config name

[Lee Jones]

On Mon, 06 Jan 2014, Lee Jones wrote:

> > Use the device platform data as a regmap config
> > name. This is particularly useful in the regmap
> > debugfs when there is more than one syscon device
> > registered, to distinguish the register blocks.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll at arm.com>
> > Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo at linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/mfd/syscon.c | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/mfd/syscon.c b/drivers/mfd/syscon.c
> > index 71841f9..ea1770b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mfd/syscon.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mfd/syscon.c
> > @@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ static int syscon_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >  		return -ENOMEM;
> >  
> >  	syscon_regmap_config.max_register = res->end - res->start - 3;
> > +	syscon_regmap_config.name = dev_get_platdata(&pdev->dev);
> >  	syscon->regmap = devm_regmap_init_mmio(dev, base,
> >  					&syscon_regmap_config);
> >  	if (IS_ERR(syscon->regmap)) {
> 
> This smells a bit fishy to me. Can you point me to the piece of code
> or patch where you set the platform_data pointer as a string?

Scrap that, I see it.

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Lee Jones
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