[PATCH 00/13] uio_pruss: add support for devicetree and am33xx

Hans J. Koch hjk at hansjkoch.de
Wed Jul 9 03:16:00 PDT 2014


On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 05:50:09PM +0000, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2014, Andre Heider wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 06:21:34PM +0200, Andre Heider wrote:
> > > 
> > > this series adds PRUv2 support to uio_pruss through devicetree, makes the
> > > device usable on am33xx and enables it on beaglebone black.
> > > Inspired by old patches from Matt Porter found in a downstream tree.
> > > 
> > > To archieve that this series:
> > > * adds a flag to omap_hwmod.c to get PRUSS out of hardreset (patch 5 and 6)
> 
> ...
> 
> > > * is the hardreset thing I did there the right thing to do? I think the
> > >   proper way would be a reset controller (which apparently doesn't yet exist
> > >   for this SoC?) and let the driver deassert/assert on probe/remove?
> > > * the platform device path has a clk_enable() / clk_put() calls. Are those
> > >   now redundant with the introduced pm_runtime_enable() pm_runtime_disable()
> > >   calls?
> 
> Probably you only need pm_runtime_{get,put}_*() calls, unless you're 
> changing clock parents or rates in your driver code.
> 
> > @OMAP guys: any comments? The series depends on patch 5 and 6; both touch
> > common hwmod code.
> 
> I'd suggest splitting the series into three independent pieces if 
> possible:
> 
> 1. UIO code, for the UIO maintainer(s)
> 2. DT pieces for Tony
> 3. hwmod pieces for me
> 
> That way they can be cleanly merged by the respective maintainers.

I second that. At first sight, the UIO parts look OK to me, but please
make it a new patch series.

Thanks,
Hans



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