* Felipe Balbi <felipe.ba...@linux.intel.com> [160407 04:19]: > Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.stras...@ti.com> writes: > > Most probably this is required to pass some data from parent device to > > children when parent dev instantiate children from DT, at least I've > > experimented with > > this in mostly similar way (I've not added second pass and did break in the > > first > > if !phys_addr, but Tony's patch is more correct).
OK that's a different use case I have, but good to know it helps with that too. > > For example, > > - USB dwc3 platform/integration layer dev creates DWC3-core device > > (of_platform_populate()) > > - DWC3-core device creates xhci device > > - USB dwc3 platform/integration layer dev can dynamically get rev info > > from HW and identify limitation/erratas/quirks which need to be applied > > to > > to its children. > > - DWC3-core can dynamically get rev info ... > > > > I was not able to find any other proper way to pass this (platfrom)data to > > children, except > > using Auxdata. And, as per Felipe Balbi, It was the major reason why now > > DWC3-core device creates xhci device manually. > > doesn't device_property() solve that ? I'm just waiting for some patches > from Heikki (in Cc) before we rip pdata from dwc3 completely. At that > point, we can look at building xhci from DT. > > The only thing that comes to mind is how this will look for PCI-only > systems if we rip manual xHCI device creation completely. Sounds like this dwc3 thread is a bit separate from the $subject patch except for the legacy usage. Regards, Tony