Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] cpufreq: tegra: Re-model Tegra cpufreq driver

[bilhuang]

On 12/06/2013 07:04 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 12/05/2013 12:44 AM, Bill Huang wrote:
> > Re-model Tegra cpufreq driver to support all Tegra series of SoCs.
> >
> > * Make tegra-cpufreq.c a generic Tegra cpufreq driver.
> > * Move Tegra20 specific codes into tegra20-cpufreq.c.
> > * Bind Tegra cpufreq dirver with a fake device so defer probe would work
> >    when we're going to get regulator in the driver to support voltage
> >    scaling (DVFS).
>
> > diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/tegra-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/tegra-cpufreq.c
>
> > @@ -91,14 +40,10 @@ static int tegra_update_cpu_speed(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
> ...
> > +	if (soc_config->vote_emc_on_cpu_rate)
> > +		soc_config->vote_emc_on_cpu_rate(rate);
> > +
> > +	ret = soc_config->cpu_clk_set_rate(rate * 1000);
> >   	if (ret)
> >   		pr_err("cpu-tegra: Failed to set cpu frequency to %lu kHz\n",
> >   			rate);
>
> Is there any/much shared code left in this file after this patch? It
> seems like all this file does now is make each cpufreq callback function
> call soc_config->the_same_function_name(). If so, wouldn't it be better
> to simply implement completely separate tegar20-cpufreq and
> tegra30-cpufreq drivers, and register them each directly with the
> cpufreq core, to avoid this file doing all the indirection?
I think this file is needed since we can shared the registration and 
probe logic for different SoCs.
> > -int __init tegra_cpufreq_init(void)
> > +static struct {
> > +	char *compat;
> > +	int (*init)(struct tegra_cpufreq_data *,
> > +			const struct tegra_cpufreq_config **);
> > +} tegra_init_funcs[] = {
> > +	{ "nvidia,tegra20", tegra20_cpufreq_init },
> > +};
> > +
> > +static int tegra_cpufreq_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> ...
> > +	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(tegra_init_funcs); i++) {
> > +		if (of_machine_is_compatible(tegra_init_funcs[i].compat)) {
> > +			ret = tegra_init_funcs[i].init(tegra_data, &soc_config);
> > +			if (!ret)
> > +				break;
> > +			else
> > +				goto out;
> > +		}
> >   	}
> > +	if (i == ARRAY_SIZE(tegra_init_funcs))
> > +		goto out;
>
> I think there are better ways of doing this than open-coding it. Perhaps
> of_match_device() or the platform-driver equivalent could be made to work?
Open coding is everywhere in OF helper functions actually. I doubt if we 
can use of_match_device() if we're not adding node in DT.
If we're matching the platform device then we might need open coding, no?
> > +int __init tegra_cpufreq_init(void)
> > +{
> > +	struct platform_device_info devinfo = { .name = "tegra-cpufreq", };
> > +
> > +	platform_device_register_full(&devinfo);
> > +
> > +	return 0;
> >   }
> >   EXPORT_SYMBOL(tegra_cpufreq_init);
>
> Perhaps instead of hard-coding the name "tegra-cpufreq" here, you could
> dynamically construct the device name based on the DT's root compatible
> value, register "${root_compatible}-cpufreq", e.g.
> "nvidia,tegra20-cpufreq" or "nvidia,tegra30-cpufreq". That would allow
> the kernel's standard device/driver matching mechanism to pick the
> correct driver to instantiate. Perhaps you could even dynamically
> register an OF device so that you can use of_match_device() in probe, if
I guess what you meant dynamically register an OF device is registering 
an fake OF device by calling of_device_add(), no? If yes then what 
of_node should we give?
> there's some advantage of having a single driver that supports N chips.

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