[RFC/PATCH 0/7] decouple platform_device from omap_device

"G, Manjunath Kondaiah" [off-list ref] writes:

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 02:45:33PM -0700, Hilman, Kevin wrote:

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Hi Manjunath,

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:04 AM, G, Manjunath Kondaiah [off-list ref] wrote:

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Kevin,

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 04:52:10PM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:

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Here's a first whack, proof-of-concept on how we could start to
decouple the platform_device from an omap_device.

The main RFC is in the last patch, and everything leading up to it are
misc. omap_device cleanups that make the last patch cleaner and
clearer. ?It's really the last patch that does the decoupling.

This will be necessary if we're going to decouple the platform_device
creation from the omap_device/omap_hwmod creation etc. ?This patch
leaves them both done in omap_device_build(), but shows that they can
be decoupled.

Can you pls mention baseline used for these patches? I tried applying on
latest mainline, v3.0 and ?git://git.pwsan.com/linux-2.6 prcm-devel-3.1

Oops, sorry.  I forgot to mention it.

Due to some misc. dependencies (mainly on Beagle board file), I've
temporarily based it on the for-next branch of the arm-soc tree[1]
since that has everything already queued for the next merge window. I
also based it on the omap_device patch I posted which changes the pr_*
prints to dev_*.

For convenience, I've pushed this series to the 'wip/od-devres' branch
of my tree[2].

Sorry for the confusion,

Kevin

[1] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/linux-arm-soc.git

[2] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/khilman/linux-omap-pm.git

This series results in boot crash. However, it boots fine without this
series.  I have not tried to debug but it looks like from boot log,
the res structure has invalid entries in mmc probe. As mentioned by
Grant in 7/7, the scope of devres is not lifetime hence it needs to be
fixed.

This limitation was also clearly described in the changelog of patch
7/7.

However, I don't think that problem should cause a problem on boot, only
a from the driver core (which, suprisingly,  I don't see in your bootlog.)

I suspect your crash is because you're not also testing with the MMC
runtime PM series that is merging for v3.1.

Kevin