[PATCH v2] net: dm9000: Allow instantiation using device tree

Sylwester Nawrocki sylvester.nawrocki at gmail.com
Sun May 19 09:27:53 EDT 2013


Hi,

On 05/19/2013 01:16 PM, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/davicom-dm9000.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
> +Davicom DM9000 Fast Ethernet controller
> +
> +Required properties:
> +- compatible = "davicom,dm9000";
> +- reg : physical addresses and sizes of registers, must contain 2 entries:
> +    first entry : address register,
> +    second entry : address register.

Two address registers ? Shouldn't one of these be "data register" ?

> +Example:
> +
> +	ethernet at 18000000 {
> +		compatible = "davicom,dm9000";
> +		reg =<0x18000000 0x2 0x18000004 0x2>;
> +		interrupt-parent =<&gpn>;
> +		interrupts =<7 4>;
> +		local-mac-address = [00 00 de ad be ef];
> +		davicom,no-eeprom;
> +	};

> +static struct dm9000_plat_data *dm9000_parse_dt(struct device *dev)
> +{
> +	struct dm9000_plat_data *pdata;
> +	struct device_node *np = dev->of_node;
> +	const void *mac_addr;
> +
> +	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OF) || !np)
> +		return NULL;

Shouldn't ERR_PTR() value be returned here ?

> +	pdata = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*pdata), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!pdata) {
> +		dev_err(dev, "failed to allocate platform data struct\n");

There is no need for this error log, k*alloc already logs any failures.

> @@ -1373,6 +1402,12 @@ dm9000_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   	int i;
>   	u32 id_val;
>
> +	if (!pdata) {
> +		pdata = dm9000_parse_dt(&pdev->dev);
> +		if (IS_ERR(pdata))
> +			return PTR_ERR(pdata);
> +	}

Thanks,

Sylwester



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