[PATCH RFC 1/2] spmi: Add support for multi-master

Dmitry Baryshkov dmitry.baryshkov at linaro.org
Tue Feb 6 15:55:39 PST 2024


On Wed, 7 Feb 2024 at 01:34, Abel Vesa <abel.vesa at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Some newer SPMI controllers support multiple bus masters.
> Such a master can control multiple slave devices. The generic
> framework needs to be able to pass on the master id to the
> controller-specific driver. So do that. The framework will
> check if the devicetree child nodes are actually bus masters
> and will register the devices for each master. The legacy
> approach will still be supported for backwards compatibility.

Please remind me, are those two actual bus musters driving a single
bus in parallel or two SPMI buses being handled by a single device? In
the latter case this implementation is incorrect. There should be
multiple spmi_controller instances, one for each bus. Allocate them in
a loop and set ctrl->dev.of_node after allocating.

>
> Signed-off-by: Abel Vesa <abel.vesa at linaro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/spmi/spmi-mtk-pmif.c |  6 ++--
>  drivers/spmi/spmi-pmic-arb.c | 10 +++---
>  drivers/spmi/spmi.c          | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  include/linux/spmi.h         | 10 +++---
>  4 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)

-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry



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