[PATCH 2/2] mpc85xx_edac: change to use new definitions for PCI EDAC regspace

[Kumar Gala]

On Jul 22, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Scott Wood wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:48:15 +0400
> Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Jul 21, 2010, at 7:03 PM, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Currently (as mpc8540-pci) devices are not created on of_platform bus,
>>>> mpc85xx_edac can't probe to them. Follow the change to dts trees to bind
>>>> not to the main mpc8540-pci node but to special mpc85xx-pci-error nodes,
>>>> present on soc bus.
>>>> 
>>>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov at gmail.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> drivers/edac/mpc85xx_edac.c |   18 +++++++++---------
>>>> 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>> 
>>> Nak.
>>> 
>>> We already have a node in the dts for the PCI controller.  Lets update the platform code to add the pci controller to the of_platform_bus_probe list.
>> 
>> I've had that idea. However it's really look strange to me to call
>> of_platform_bus_probe() on the bus node, for which we (IMO) explicitly
>> won't like for
>> child devices (PCI devices) to be added to of_platform bus.
> 
> Right, and it's also not great for a driver for one aspect of PCI to
> claim to be the driver for the whole thing.
> 
> But changing the device tree because of this Linux-internal concern is
> also not good.
> 
> How about keeping the error stuff as a separate device from Linux's
> perspective, but have the main Freescale PCI code create it as a
> platform device instead of putting it in the device tree?

I'd be good with that solution.

- k