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SubjectRE: [PATCH V3 5/6] Avoid duplicate probe for of platform devices
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Herring [mailto:robherring2@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 11:33 PM
> To: Jia Hongtao-B38951
> Cc: devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> Greg KH
> Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 5/6] Avoid duplicate probe for of platform devices
>
> [adding lkml and Greg KH]
>
> On 06/08/2012 04:43 AM, Jia Hongtao wrote:
> > We changed the pcie controller driver to platform driver so that the
> PCI
> > of platform devices need to be created earlier in the arch_initcall
> stage
> > according to the original timing of calling fsl_add_bridge(). So we do
> PCI
> > probing separately from other devices. But probing more than once could
> > cause duplication warning. We add check if the devices have already
> probed
> > before probing any devices to avoid duplication warning.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jia Hongtao <B38951@freescale.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
> > ---
>
> Where's v1 and v2 history?

Sorry, there is no V1 and V2.
These are a series of patches and only this one related to device-tree operation.
V3 are for other patches.
I will aware of that in the future.
Thanks for mentioning.

>
> > drivers/of/platform.c | 18 ++++++++++++------
> > 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/of/platform.c b/drivers/of/platform.c
> > index a37330e..3aab01f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/of/platform.c
> > +++ b/drivers/of/platform.c
> > @@ -139,6 +139,18 @@ struct platform_device *of_device_alloc(struct
> device_node *np,
> > if (!dev)
> > return NULL;
> >
> > + dev->dev.of_node = of_node_get(np);
> > + if (bus_id)
> > + dev_set_name(&dev->dev, "%s", bus_id);
> > + else
> > + of_device_make_bus_id(&dev->dev);
> > +
> > + if (kset_find_obj(dev->dev.kobj.kset, kobject_name(&dev->dev.kobj)))
> {
>
> Is this a fast operation? I worry that we'd be doing this for every
> device creation. Looking at kobj's seems too low level as well.
>

To us this is also the main concern.

-Jia Hongtao.

> Perhaps moving the warning up the call stack and making the relevant
> functions __must_check would work.
>
> Rob
>
> > + kfree(dev);
> > + of_node_put(np);
> > + return NULL;
> > + }
> > +
> > /* count the io and irq resources */
> > while (of_address_to_resource(np, num_reg, &temp_res) == 0)
> > num_reg++;
> > @@ -161,17 +173,11 @@ struct platform_device *of_device_alloc(struct
> device_node *np,
> > WARN_ON(of_irq_to_resource_table(np, res, num_irq) !=
> num_irq);
> > }
> >
> > - dev->dev.of_node = of_node_get(np);
> > #if defined(CONFIG_MICROBLAZE)
> > dev->dev.dma_mask = &dev->archdata.dma_mask;
> > #endif
> > dev->dev.parent = parent;
> >
> > - if (bus_id)
> > - dev_set_name(&dev->dev, "%s", bus_id);
> > - else
> > - of_device_make_bus_id(&dev->dev);
> > -
> > return dev;
> > }
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_device_alloc);
>




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