Re: [PATCH 03/10] Documentation: Add ISA bus driver documentation

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 10:47:24AM -0400, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> This is a verbatim copy of the original commit message of the initial
> commit of the ISA bus driver authored by Rene Herman. Descriptions of
> the module_isa_driver macro and max_num_isa_dev macro are provided at
> the end.
> 
> Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/isa.txt | 121 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  MAINTAINERS           |   5 +++
>  2 files changed, 126 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/isa.txt
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/isa.txt b/Documentation/isa.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..f232c26
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/isa.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
> +ISA Drivers
> +-----------
> +
> +The following text is adapted from the commit message of the initial
> +commit of the ISA bus driver authored by Rene Herman.
> +
> +During the recent "isa drivers using platform devices" discussion it was
> +pointed out that (ALSA) ISA drivers ran into the problem of not having
> +the option to fail driver load (device registration rather) upon not
> +finding their hardware due to a probe() error not being passed up
> +through the driver model. In the course of that, I suggested a separate
> +ISA bus might be best; Russell King agreed and suggested this bus could
> +use the .match() method for the actual device discovery.
> +
> +The attached does this. For this old non (generically) discoverable ISA
> +hardware only the driver itself can do discovery so as a difference with
> +the platform_bus, this isa_bus also distributes match() up to the
> +driver.
> +
> +As another difference: these devices only exist in the driver model due
> +to the driver creating them because it might want to drive them, meaning
> +that all device creation has been made internal as well.
> +
> +The usage model this provides is nice, and has been acked from the ALSA
> +side by Takashi Iwai and Jaroslav Kysela. The ALSA driver module_init's
> +now (for oldisa-only drivers) become:
> +
> +static int __init alsa_card_foo_init(void)
> +{
> +	return isa_register_driver(&snd_foo_isa_driver, SNDRV_CARDS);
> +}
> +
> +static void __exit alsa_card_foo_exit(void)
> +{
> +	isa_unregister_driver(&snd_foo_isa_driver);
> +}
> +
> +Quite like the other bus models therefore. This removes a lot of
> +duplicated init code from the ALSA ISA drivers.
> +
> +The passed in isa_driver struct is the regular driver struct embedding a
> +struct device_driver, the normal probe/remove/shutdown/suspend/resume
> +callbacks, and as indicated that .match callback.
> +
> +The "SNDRV_CARDS" you see being passed in is a "unsigned int ndev"
> +parameter, indicating how many devices to create and call our methods
> +with.
> +
> +The platform_driver callbacks are called with a platform_device param;
> +the isa_driver callbacks are being called with a "struct device *dev,
> +unsigned int id" pair directly -- with the device creation completely
> +internal to the bus it's much cleaner to not leak isa_dev's by passing
> +them in at all. The id is the only thing we ever want other then the
> +struct device * anyways, and it makes for nicer code in the callbacks as
> +well.
> +
> +With this additional .match() callback ISA drivers have all options. If
> +ALSA would want to keep the old non-load behaviour, it could stick all
> +of the old .probe in .match, which would only keep them registered after
> +everything was found to be present and accounted for. If it wanted the
> +behaviour of always loading as it inadvertently did for a bit after the
> +changeover to platform devices, it could just not provide a .match() and
> +do everything in .probe() as before.
> +
> +If it, as Takashi Iwai already suggested earlier as a way of following
> +the model from saner buses more closely, wants to load when a later bind
> +could conceivably succeed, it could use .match() for the prerequisites
> +(such as checking the user wants the card enabled and that port/irq/dma
> +values have been passed in) and .probe() for everything else. This is
> +the nicest model.
> +
> +To the code...
> +
> +This exports only two functions; isa_{,un}register_driver().
> +
> +isa_register_driver() register's the struct device_driver, and then
> +loops over the passed in ndev creating devices and registering them.
> +This causes the bus match method to be called for them, which is:
> +
> +int isa_bus_match(struct device *dev, struct device_driver *driver)
> +{
> +          struct isa_driver *isa_driver = to_isa_driver(driver);
> +
> +          if (dev->platform_data == isa_driver) {
> +                  if (!isa_driver->match ||
> +                          isa_driver->match(dev, to_isa_dev(dev)->id))
> +                          return 1;
> +                  dev->platform_data = NULL;
> +          }
> +          return 0;
> +}
> +
> +The first thing this does is check if this device is in fact one of this
> +driver's devices by seeing if the device's platform_data pointer is set
> +to this driver. Platform devices compare strings, but we don't need to
> +do that with everything being internal, so isa_register_driver() abuses
> +dev->platform_data as a isa_driver pointer which we can then check here.
> +I believe platform_data is available for this, but if rather not, moving
> +the isa_driver pointer to the private struct isa_dev is ofcourse fine as
> +well.
> +
> +Then, if the the driver did not provide a .match, it matches. If it did,
> +the driver match() method is called to determine a match.
> +
> +If it did _not_ match, dev->platform_data is reset to indicate this to
> +isa_register_driver which can then unregister the device again.
> +
> +If during all this, there's any error, or no devices matched at all
> +everything is backed out again and the error, or -ENODEV, is returned.
> +
> +isa_unregister_driver() just unregisters the matched devices and the
> +driver itself.
> +
> +module_isa_driver is a helper macro for ISA drivers which do not do
> +anything special in module init/exit. This eliminates a lot of
> +boilerplate code. Each module may only use this macro once, and calling
> +it replaces module_init and module_exit.
> +
> +max_num_isa_dev is a macro to determine the maximum possible number of
> +ISA devices which may be registered in the I/O port address space given
> +the address extent of the ISA devices.
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 03e00c7..3713010 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -5994,6 +5994,11 @@ F:	include/linux/irqdomain.h
>  F:	kernel/irq/irqdomain.c
>  F:	kernel/irq/msi.c
>  
> +ISA
> +M:	William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com>
> +S:	Maintained
> +F:	Documentation/isa.txt

You are just in charge of one documentation file?  That seems odd for a
whole subsystem :(

Why not list all of the needed files?

thanks,

greg k-h