[RESEND][PATCH 0/4] firmware: of: populate /firmware/ node during init
Frank Rowand
frowand.list at gmail.com
Mon Oct 16 15:44:07 PDT 2017
+ me
On 09/28/17 03:45, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> Hi Rob, Arnd,
>
> There's a push to place all firmware related device node under
> /firmware/ node. However all the associated drivers are dealing with
> device creation in their own ways. For example, qcom_scm, optee and
> meson-sm drivers deal with the node in their own way. The SCMI drivers
> I am about to add also needs to do the same. This small series is to
> make it generic so that all the users of /firmware/ node need not
> repeat the same.
>
> There was concern that /firmware in DT is fit for /sys/firmware in sysfs.
> IMO anything exposed to userspace from such firmware interface must
> be in "/sys/firmware", but I don't see any issue with kernel handling
> them as platform device/driver internally.
>
> Sudeep Holla (4):
> of: platform: populate /firmware/ node from
> of_platform_default_populate_init()
> firmware: qcom_scm: drop redandant of_platform_populate
> drivers: tee: rework optee_driver_{init,exit} to use platform device
> firmware: meson-sm: rework meson_sm_init to use
> module_platform_driver_probe
>
> drivers/firmware/meson/meson_sm.c | 21 ++++++-----
> drivers/firmware/qcom_scm.c | 24 -------------
> drivers/of/platform.c | 4 +++
> drivers/tee/optee/core.c | 74 +++++++++++++--------------------------
> 4 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-)
>
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