[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 02/11] mfd: wcd934x: add support to wcd9340/wcd9341 codec

[Lee Jones]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2019, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:

> 
> 
> On 21/10/2019 12:45, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Oct 2019, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> > 
> > > Thanks Lee for taking time to review.
> > > 
> > > I agree with most of the style related comments, will fix them in next
> > > version. For others I have replied it inline.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > > > +static int wcd934x_slim_status(struct slim_device *sdev,
> > > > > +			       enum slim_device_status status)
> > > > > +{
> > > > > +	struct device *dev = &sdev->dev;
> > > > > +	struct wcd934x_data *wcd;
> > > > > +	int ret;
> > > > 
> > > > This is semantically odd!  Why are you doing most of the
> > > > initialisation and bring-up in 'status' and not 'probe'.  Seems
> > > > broken to me.
> > > 
> > > SLIMBus device will not be in a state to communicate before enumeration (at
> > > probe), so all the device initialization is done in status callback where it
> > > is ready for communication.
> > 
> > Why do we need the device to be up *before* calling probe?
> > 
> 
> To Initialize the device.
> And SLIMbus device registers access can not be done before enumeration.

I'm not sure why you need any hardware to be enabled before calling
.probe(). That is the purpose of .probe(). The only way in which I can
see this being a requirement is if information located on the device
is required in order to do device-driver matching.

In which case, how was the .status() function matched?

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