Re: [PATCH v2] mfd: syscon: Use a unique name with regmap_config

[Suman Anna <s-anna@ti.com>]

Hi David,

On 1/27/20 5:40 PM, David Lechner wrote:
> On 1/27/20 5:12 PM, Suman Anna wrote:
>> The DT node full name is currently being used in regmap_config
>> which in turn is used to create the regmap debugfs directories.
>> This name however is not guaranteed to be unique and the regmap
>> debugfs registration can fail in the cases where the syscon nodes
>> have the same unit-address but are present in different DT node
>> hierarchies. Replace this logic using the syscon reg resource
>> address instead (inspired from logic used while creating platform
>> devices) to ensure a unique name is given for each syscon.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Suman Anna <s-anna@ti.com>
>> ---
>> v2: Fix build warning reported by kbuild test bot
>> v1: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11346363/
>>
>>   drivers/mfd/syscon.c | 4 +++-
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/syscon.c b/drivers/mfd/syscon.c
>> index e22197c832e8..f0815d8e6e95 100644
>> --- a/drivers/mfd/syscon.c
>> +++ b/drivers/mfd/syscon.c
>> @@ -101,12 +101,14 @@ static struct syscon *of_syscon_register(struct
>> device_node *np, bool check_clk)
>>           }
>>       }
>>   -    syscon_config.name = of_node_full_name(np);
>> +    syscon_config.name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%pOFn@%llx", np,
>> +                       (u64)res.start);
> 
> Would it make sense to also include the node name along with the
> pointer address so that the name is still easily identifiable?

I haven't dropped the node name, it is still there, the pOFn part. I am
only replacing the DT unit-address with the bus address, I haven't
changed the name style either.

regards
Suman

> 
>>       syscon_config.reg_stride = reg_io_width;
>>       syscon_config.val_bits = reg_io_width * 8;
>>       syscon_config.max_register = resource_size(&res) - reg_io_width;
>>         regmap = regmap_init_mmio(NULL, base, &syscon_config);
>> +    kfree(syscon_config.name);
>>       if (IS_ERR(regmap)) {
>>           pr_err("regmap init failed\n");
>>           ret = PTR_ERR(regmap);
>>
>