Re: [PATCH 1/1] mfd: simple-mfd-i2c: Add support for registering devices via MFD cells

From: Michael Walle
Date: Thu Aug 05 2021 - 03:06:03 EST


Hi Lee,

Am 2021-08-04 16:37, schrieb Lee Jones:
More devices are cropping up requiring only Regmap initialisation and
child registration functionality. We currently only support that if
all required devices are represented by their own Device Tree nodes
complete with compatible strings.

However, not everyone is happy with adding empty nodes that provide no
additional device information into the Device Tree.

Rather than have a plethora of mostly empty, function-less drivers in
MFD, we'll support those simple cases in here instead via MFD cells.

Cc: Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Michael, could you please test this on your platform to ensure I
didn't break anything please?


I'm getting a null pointer dereference.

[..]

static int simple_mfd_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c)
{
- const struct regmap_config *config;
+ const struct simple_mfd_data *simple_mfd_data;
+ const struct regmap_config *regmap_config;
struct regmap *regmap;
+ int ret;
+
+ simple_mfd_data = device_get_match_data(&i2c->dev);

- config = device_get_match_data(&i2c->dev);
- if (!config)
- config = &simple_regmap_config;
+ if (simple_mfd_data->regmap_config)

simple_mfd_data might be NULL.

+ regmap_config = simple_mfd_data->regmap_config;
+ else
+ regmap_config = &regmap_config_8r_8v;

- regmap = devm_regmap_init_i2c(i2c, config);
+ regmap = devm_regmap_init_i2c(i2c, regmap_config);
if (IS_ERR(regmap))
return PTR_ERR(regmap);

- return devm_of_platform_populate(&i2c->dev);
+ if (!simple_mfd_data->mfd_cell)

likewise

+ return devm_of_platform_populate(&i2c->dev);
+
+ ret = devm_mfd_add_devices(&i2c->dev, PLATFORM_DEVID_AUTO,
+ simple_mfd_data->mfd_cell,
+ simple_mfd_data->mfd_cell_size,
+ NULL, 0, NULL);
+ if (!ret)
+ dev_err(&i2c->dev, "Failed to add child devices\n");
+
+ return ret;
}

-michael