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From: noralf@tronnes•org (Noralf Trønnes)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3 v4] ARM: bcm2835: Add the Raspberry Pi firmware driver
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 23:39:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55678AFC.6020404@tronnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5567886F.5080108@wwwdotorg.org>


Den 28.05.2015 23:28, skrev Stephen Warren:
> On 05/28/2015 12:33 PM, Eric Anholt wrote:
>> This gives us a function for making mailbox property channel requests
>> of the firmware, which is most notable in that it will let us get and
>> set clock rates.
...
>> +int rpi_firmware_property_list(struct device_node *of_node,
>> +			       void *data, size_t tag_size)
>> +{
>> +	struct platform_device *pdev = of_find_device_by_node(of_node);
> I would expect the of_node -> pdev mapping to happen at client device
> probe time. Simplest for this driver would be if the
> client-probe-time-mapping function returned the "struct rpi_firmware"
> and the client passed that to this function.

What if the firmware driver/device is removed or reloaded?
In that case the client has an invalid pointer. It wouldn't know about 
the change.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-28 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-13 19:00 RPi firmware driver v2 Eric Anholt
2015-05-13 19:00 ` [PATCH 1/3 v2] dt/bindings: Add binding for the Raspberry Pi firmware driver Eric Anholt
2015-05-14  8:40   ` Lee Jones
2015-05-14  9:57     ` Eric Anholt
2015-05-17 17:11   ` Noralf Trønnes
2015-05-18 17:59   ` [PATCH 1/3 v3] " Eric Anholt
2015-05-28 21:12     ` Stephen Warren
2015-05-13 19:00 ` [PATCH 2/3 v2] ARM: bcm2835: Add " Eric Anholt
2015-05-17 17:30   ` Noralf Trønnes
2015-05-17 18:26   ` Noralf Trønnes
2015-05-18 17:34     ` Eric Anholt
2015-05-18 18:00   ` [PATCH 2/3 v3] " Eric Anholt
     [not found]   ` <20150528112610.GO11677@x1>
2015-05-28 11:45     ` [PATCH 2/3 v2] " Lee Jones
2015-05-28 18:33       ` [PATCH 2/3 v4] " Eric Anholt
2015-05-28 21:28         ` Stephen Warren
2015-05-28 21:39           ` Noralf Trønnes [this message]
2015-05-28 22:09             ` Stephen Warren
2015-05-28 22:36           ` Eric Anholt
2015-05-28 21:42         ` Noralf Trønnes
2015-05-28 22:10           ` Stephen Warren
2015-05-28 22:38           ` Eric Anholt
2015-05-28 22:43             ` Noralf Trønnes
2015-05-28 21:17   ` [PATCH 2/3 v2] " Stephen Warren
2015-05-28 22:40     ` Noralf Trønnes
2015-05-13 19:00 ` [PATCH 3/3 v2] ARM: bcm2835: Add the firmware driver information to the RPi DT Eric Anholt
2015-05-28 21:29   ` Stephen Warren

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