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SubjectRe: [PATCH] of: Have of_device_add call platform_device_add rather than device_add
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Jason Gunthorpe
<jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 03:51:04PM +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:24:48 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> wrote:
>> > This allows platform_device_add a chance to call insert_resource
>> > on all of the resources from OF. At a minimum this fills in proc/iomem
>> > and presumably makes resource tracking and conflict detection work
>> > better.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
>> > drivers/of/device.c | 2 +-
>> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > Tested on PPC32 and ARM32 embedded kernels.
>> >
>> > diff --git a/drivers/of/device.c b/drivers/of/device.c
>> > index 4c74e4f..a5b67dc 100644
>> > +++ b/drivers/of/device.c
>> > @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ int of_device_add(struct platform_device *ofdev)
>> > if (!ofdev->dev.parent)
>> > set_dev_node(&ofdev->dev, of_node_to_nid(ofdev->dev.of_node));
>> >
>> > - return device_add(&ofdev->dev);
>> > + return platform_device_add(ofdev);
>> > }
>> >
>> > int of_device_register(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>
>> This has the side effect of moving all devices at the root of the tree
>> from /sys/devices/ to /sys/devices/platform. It also has the possibility
>> of breaking if any devices get registered with overlapping regions. I
>> think there are some powerpc 5200 boards that do this, and I'm not sure
>> about the larger Power boxen.
>
> Okay, I'll try to test your patch.
>
> I know sensible overlapping seems to work:
>
> e0000000-e7ffffff : PCIe 0 MEM
> e0000000-e000ffff : 0000:00:01.0
> e0000000-e0000fff : /pex@e0000000/chip@0/chip_control@0
> e0000008-e000000b : dat
> e0000008-e000000b : dat
> e000000c-e000000f : set
> e000000c-e000000f : set
> e0000010-e0000013 : dirin
> e0000010-e0000013 : dirin
>
> Which is nesting the generic gpio driver under a larger region..

Try two sibling nodes with overlapping addresses. There are powerpc
device trees doing that even though it isn't legal by the ofw and
epapr specs.

g.


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