On 1/2/08, Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/2/08, Grant Likely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 1/2/08, Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On 1/2/08, Timur Tabi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > mpc8610_hpcd is the harder one to load since it doesn't have a device
> > > tree entry. What you want to do it match on the compatible field of
> > > the root node.
> > >
> > > static struct of_device_id fabric_of_match[] = {
> > > {
> > > .compatible = "fsl,MPC8610HPCD",
> > > },
> > > {},
> > > };
> > >
> > > But this doesn't work since the root is the device tree isn't passed
> > > down into the device probe code. (Could this be fixed?)
> >
> > The driver can always get the root node. But better yet, instantiate
> > the correct fabric device (probably as a platform_device) from the
> > platform code. Then the correct fabric driver can probe against it.
>
> The meaning of this has finally sunk into my consciousness. The
> platform code can create a device that isn't bound to a driver. So why
> not make this an of_platform_device? This is basically a pseudo
> device that isn't in the device tree.
Simply because it doesn't have a device node. That's the prime
characteristc that differentiates platform_bus from of_platform_bus.
What do you bind against in of_platform_bus if you don't have a
specific node for it?
> Alternatively, the best place for this device would be on the ASOC
> bus, but the ASOC bus hasn't been created when the platform code runs.
> Maybe I can figure out a place in the platform code to create this
> device after the ASOC driver has loaded and created the bus. Does the
> platform code get control back after loading all of the device
> drivers?
Yes, but it requires the core ASoC code to not be a module. Then you
can use machine_device_initcall() to register the device at a later
time.
Cheers,
g.
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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
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