[PATCH 5/9] clk: qcom: gcc-msm8960: add child devices support.

Bjorn Andersson bjorn.andersson at sonymobile.com
Wed Aug 12 13:18:55 PDT 2015


On Tue 11 Aug 15:49 PDT 2015, Stephen Boyd wrote:

> On 07/08, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
> > diff --git a/drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-msm8960.c b/drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-msm8960.c
> > index eb6a4f9..2c80d03 100644
> > --- a/drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-msm8960.c
> > +++ b/drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-msm8960.c
> > @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
> >  #include <linux/bitops.h>
> >  #include <linux/err.h>
> >  #include <linux/platform_device.h>
> > +#include <linux/of_platform.h>
> >  #include <linux/module.h>
> >  #include <linux/of.h>
> >  #include <linux/of_device.h>
> > @@ -3520,7 +3521,8 @@ static int gcc_msm8960_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >  	if (IS_ERR(clk))
> >  		return PTR_ERR(clk);
> >  
> > -	return qcom_cc_probe(pdev, match->data);
> > +	qcom_cc_probe(pdev, match->data);
> > +	return of_platform_populate(pdev->dev.of_node, NULL, NULL, &pdev->dev);
> 
> We just lost the error code from qcom_cc_probe()...
> 
> Also, I don't like having a subnode in DT. Why can't we use the
> same node as the GCC node and create a virtual child device here
> for tsens? We can assign the same of_node that this platform
> device has so that DT keeps working correctly.
> 

Can't we make the gcc driver support being a child of a simple-mfd by
having it attempting to acquire the regmap of the parent and falling
back to creating its own mmio regmap?

That way we don't need to make tsense a child of the clock device and
we're still backwards compatible.

Regards,
Bjorn



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