[PATCH 0/2] drivers: PL061: Add platform driver probing support
From: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
Date: 2015-08-03 16:26:23
On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 10:49:23AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 05:26:05PM +0800, Shannon Zhao wrote:quoted
Hi Russell, On 2015/8/3 15:58, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:quoted
On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 02:59:56PM +0800, Shannon Zhao wrote:quoted
From: Shannon Zhao <redacted> According to ACPI SPEC, it supports ARM boards to use "GPIO-signaled ACPI Events". These events can be used for input events. And to QEMU, it uses GPIO PL061 controller for input events. These two patches add platform driver support for PL061 probed by DT or ACPI.This certainly is incorrect for DT, and is probably wrong for ACPI too. DT creates amba devices, so binds via the amba device driver.Oh, sorry. The changes for DT are not necessary. But for ACPI I think it needs to convert pl061 to platform device since ACPI doesn't support AMBA devices. The Pl011 also does the same thing to support ACPI probing. See drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.cMaybe rather than having every AMBA driver also converted to a platform driver (which GregKH hates) maybe ACPI should support the AMBA bus instead? Greg?
The ACPI developers have been doing work to allow a driver to handle getting the resources from either DT or ACPI no matter what bus it is on, so converting anything to a platform driver shouldn't be needed. but I don't really know the details here, and this isn't being sent to the ACPI mailing list, so I don't know what to suggest... greg k-h