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[v2,02/29] Documentation: nvmem: document lookup entries

Message ID 20180810080526.27207-3-brgl@bgdev.pl (mailing list archive)
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Series at24: remove at24_platform_data | expand

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Bartosz Golaszewski Aug. 10, 2018, 8:04 a.m. UTC
From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>

Describe the usage of nvmem cell lookup tables.

Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
---
 Documentation/nvmem/nvmem.txt | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)

Comments

Brian Norris Aug. 31, 2018, 8:30 p.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 10:04:59AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
> 
> Describe the usage of nvmem cell lookup tables.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/nvmem/nvmem.txt | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/nvmem/nvmem.txt b/Documentation/nvmem/nvmem.txt
> index 8d8d8f58f96f..9d5e3ca2b4f3 100644
> --- a/Documentation/nvmem/nvmem.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/nvmem/nvmem.txt
> @@ -58,6 +58,34 @@ static int qfprom_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  It is mandatory that the NVMEM provider has a regmap associated with its
>  struct device. Failure to do would return error code from nvmem_register().
>  
> +Additionally it is possible to create nvmem cell lookup entries and register
> +them with the nvmem framework from machine code as shown in the example below:

Maybe it's partially a lacking in the existing documentation, but what
does the "name" and the "nvmem_name" mean here? AFAICT, "nvmem_name" is
akin to a provider identifier; and "name" is a key to match with the
consumer. It feels like this should be in either the header / kerneldoc
or this file. Or maybe both.

Does this mean there can only be a single "mac-address" cell in the
system? I have systems where there are multiple MACs provided in flash
storage, and we need to map them to ethernet0 and ethernet1. Is that
supported here?

Brian

> +static struct nvmem_cell_lookup foobar_lookup = {
> +	.info = {
> +		.name = "mac-address",
> +		.offset = 0xd000,
> +		.bytes = ERH_ALEN,
> +	},
> +	.nvmem_name = "foobar",
> +};
> +
> +static void foobar_register(void)
> +{
> +	...
> +	nvmem_add_lookup_table(&foobar_lookup, 1);
> +	...
> +}
> +
> +A lookup entry table can be later removed if needed:
> +
> +static void foobar_fini(void)
> +{
> +	...
> +	nvmem_del_lookup_table(&foobar_lookup, 1);
> +	...
> +}
> +
>  NVMEM Consumers
>  +++++++++++++++
>  
> -- 
> 2.18.0
>
Bartosz Golaszewski Sept. 1, 2018, 1:11 p.m. UTC | #2
2018-08-31 22:30 GMT+02:00 Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 10:04:59AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
>>
>> Describe the usage of nvmem cell lookup tables.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/nvmem/nvmem.txt | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/nvmem/nvmem.txt b/Documentation/nvmem/nvmem.txt
>> index 8d8d8f58f96f..9d5e3ca2b4f3 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/nvmem/nvmem.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/nvmem/nvmem.txt
>> @@ -58,6 +58,34 @@ static int qfprom_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>  It is mandatory that the NVMEM provider has a regmap associated with its
>>  struct device. Failure to do would return error code from nvmem_register().
>>
>> +Additionally it is possible to create nvmem cell lookup entries and register
>> +them with the nvmem framework from machine code as shown in the example below:
>
> Maybe it's partially a lacking in the existing documentation, but what
> does the "name" and the "nvmem_name" mean here? AFAICT, "nvmem_name" is
> akin to a provider identifier; and "name" is a key to match with the
> consumer. It feels like this should be in either the header / kerneldoc
> or this file. Or maybe both.
>
> Does this mean there can only be a single "mac-address" cell in the
> system? I have systems where there are multiple MACs provided in flash
> storage, and we need to map them to ethernet0 and ethernet1. Is that
> supported here?
>

This is a shortcoming of the nvmem subsystem we discussed under
another patch in this series with Boris and Srinivas. I will try to
post a series addressing this next week. Basically there's a global
list of nvmem cells referenced only by name and unless you're using DT
you can only have a single cell with given name. I will address it by
introducing the standard dev_id/con_id resource association.

Bart

> Brian
>
>> +static struct nvmem_cell_lookup foobar_lookup = {
>> +     .info = {
>> +             .name = "mac-address",
>> +             .offset = 0xd000,
>> +             .bytes = ERH_ALEN,
>> +     },
>> +     .nvmem_name = "foobar",
>> +};
>> +
>> +static void foobar_register(void)
>> +{
>> +     ...
>> +     nvmem_add_lookup_table(&foobar_lookup, 1);
>> +     ...
>> +}
>> +
>> +A lookup entry table can be later removed if needed:
>> +
>> +static void foobar_fini(void)
>> +{
>> +     ...
>> +     nvmem_del_lookup_table(&foobar_lookup, 1);
>> +     ...
>> +}
>> +
>>  NVMEM Consumers
>>  +++++++++++++++
>>
>> --
>> 2.18.0
>>
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diff --git a/Documentation/nvmem/nvmem.txt b/Documentation/nvmem/nvmem.txt
index 8d8d8f58f96f..9d5e3ca2b4f3 100644
--- a/Documentation/nvmem/nvmem.txt
+++ b/Documentation/nvmem/nvmem.txt
@@ -58,6 +58,34 @@  static int qfprom_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 It is mandatory that the NVMEM provider has a regmap associated with its
 struct device. Failure to do would return error code from nvmem_register().
 
+Additionally it is possible to create nvmem cell lookup entries and register
+them with the nvmem framework from machine code as shown in the example below:
+
+static struct nvmem_cell_lookup foobar_lookup = {
+	.info = {
+		.name = "mac-address",
+		.offset = 0xd000,
+		.bytes = ERH_ALEN,
+	},
+	.nvmem_name = "foobar",
+};
+
+static void foobar_register(void)
+{
+	...
+	nvmem_add_lookup_table(&foobar_lookup, 1);
+	...
+}
+
+A lookup entry table can be later removed if needed:
+
+static void foobar_fini(void)
+{
+	...
+	nvmem_del_lookup_table(&foobar_lookup, 1);
+	...
+}
+
 NVMEM Consumers
 +++++++++++++++