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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 8/9] firmware: arm_scmi: Add scmi_driver optional setup/teardown callbacks
On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 04:09:05PM +0100, Cristian Marussi wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 03:09:46PM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 01:30:37PM +0100, Cristian Marussi wrote:
> > > Add optional .setup and .teardown methods to the scmi_driver descriptor:
> > > such callbacks, if provided, will be called by the SCIM core at driver
> > > registration time, so that, an SCMI driver, registered as usual with the
> > > module_scmi_driver() helper macro, can provide custom callbacks to be
> > > run once for all at module load/unload time to perform specific setup
> > > or teardown operations before/after .probe and .remove steps.
> > >
> >
> > What can't the driver call this setup/teardown on its own before/after
> > calling scmi_driver_register/unregister ?
>
> >
> > Based on the usage in 9/9, I guess it is mainly to use the
> > module_scmi_driver ? If so, I would avoid using that or have another
> > macro to manage this setup/teardown(once there are multiple users for that).
> > IMO, it doesn't make sense to add callbacks to do things that are outside
> > the scope of scmi drivers. No ?
> >
>
> This is exactly what I was doing in fact :D at first ... defining a normal
> init/exit from where I called what I needed at first and then ivoke the
> scmi_driver_register()...so bypassing/not using the module_scmi-driver macro
> indeed...then I realized I needed something similar also for the SCMI Test
> driver, so I tried to unify; in both cases indeed the required ops to be
> done before the scmi_driver_register are NOT scmi related things.
>
> So I can drop this if you prefer and use bare module_init/exit that
> calls scmi_driver_register() after having setup what needed for the
> specific driver initialization (before probe)...I was not really
> convinced it was worth this level of unification.
>

We can add macro for that too if there is another user for this. i.e.
if and when we merge the test code using something similar, we can
wrap them in a macro module_scmi_driver_setup_teardown(driver, setup, teardown)
and simplify things for the users.

--
Regards,
Sudeep

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