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SubjectRe: [PATCH/RFC v9 04/19] mfd: max77693: adjust max77693_led_platform_data
On Tue, 09 Dec 2014, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:

> On 12/09/2014 11:04 AM, Lee Jones wrote:
> >On Tue, 09 Dec 2014, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:
> >
> >>On 12/09/2014 09:50 AM, Lee Jones wrote:
> >>>On Wed, 03 Dec 2014, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Add "label" array for Device Tree strings with the name of a LED device
> >>>>and make flash_timeout a two element array, for caching the sub-led
> >>>>related flash timeout. Added is also an array for caching pointers to the
> >>>>sub-nodes representing sub-leds.
> >>>>
> >>>>Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com>
> >>>>Acked-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
> >>>>Cc: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>
> >>>>Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
> >>>>---
> >>>> include/linux/mfd/max77693.h | 4 +++-
> >>>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>>>
> >>>>diff --git a/include/linux/mfd/max77693.h b/include/linux/mfd/max77693.h
> >>>>index f0b6585..c80ee99 100644
> >>>>--- a/include/linux/mfd/max77693.h
> >>>>+++ b/include/linux/mfd/max77693.h
> >>>>@@ -88,16 +88,18 @@ enum max77693_led_boost_mode {
> >>>> };
> >>>>
> >>>> struct max77693_led_platform_data {
> >>>>+ const char *label[2];
> >>>> u32 fleds[2];
> >>>> u32 iout_torch[2];for_each_available_child_of_node
> >>>> u32 iout_flash[2];
> >>>> u32 trigger[2];
> >>>> u32 trigger_type[2];
> >>>>+ u32 flash_timeout[2];
> >>>> u32 num_leds;
> >>>> u32 boost_mode;
> >>>>- u32 flash_timeout;
> >>>> u32 boost_vout;
> >>>> u32 low_vsys;
> >>>>+ struct device_node *sub_nodes[2];
> >>>
> >>>I haven't seen anyone do this before. Why can't you use the provided
> >>>OF functions to traverse through your tree?
> >>
> >>I use for_each_available_child_of_node when parsing DT node, but I
> >>need to cache the pointer to sub-node to be able to use it later
> >>when it needs to be passed to V4L2 sub-device which is then
> >>asynchronously matched by the phandle to sub-node.
> >>
> >>If it is not well seen to cache it in the platform data then
> >>I will find different way to accomplish this.
> >
> >I haven't seen the end-driver for this, but why can't you use that
> >device's of_node pointer?
>
> Maybe it is indeed a good idea. I could pass the of_node pointer
> and the sub-led identifier to the V4L2 sub-device and there look
> for the sub-node containing relevant identifier. The downside
> would be only that for_each_available_child_of_node would
> have to be called twice - in the led driver and in the V4L2 sub-device.
> I think that we can live with it.

Are the LED and V4L2 drivers children of this MFD? If so, you can use
the of_compatible attribute in struct mfd_cell to populate the each
child's of_node dynamically i.e. the MFD core will do that for you.

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Lee Jones
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