On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Gary Thomas <g...@mlbassoc.com> wrote: > Grant Likely wrote: >>> How do I find the platform_device which was created when this >>> particular of_device was instantiated? I made sure that this code >>> is run late - after all the of_devices have been handled. >> >> Again, there is no platform_device. of_device *is* the device that was >> created. > > But this doesn't work :-( I also don't understand how you > can say "there is no platform_device" - they are everywhere, > corresponding to actual device instances, as the system > creates them, typically in a driver 'probe' function.
No, "struct device" is everywhere. "struct platform_device" is a particular container for a "struct device", just like "struct of_device" is another kind of container for "struct device". The board setup code (stuff in arch/powerpc/platforms/*) often calls into the of_platform bus to automatically register an of_device for many of the nodes in the device tree. platform_devices are typically explicitly registered by board setup code and has not relationship whatsoever with the of_platform bus. > I've tried both ways. If I look up the of_platform node and > then pass the 'dev' structure to the DSA driver, it doesn't work. > If I look up the actual device instance from the platform_bus > and pass that to the driver, it does. > > How do I get to the proper 'dev' structure which will make the > DSA driver work? > > More details - the DSA driver is expecting to get the 'dev' > structure pointer which was created in the gianfar driver, > static int gfar_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) > namely '&pdev->dev' -- this works. Ah, it becomes clear now. I seen that the gianfar driver has only recently been converted from a platform bus driver to an of_platform bus driver (see git commit b31a1d8b41513b96e9c7ec2f68c5734cef0b26a4). It will be released as part of 2.6.29. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b31a1d8b41513b96e9c7ec2f68c5734cef0b26a4 So, for the kernel version you're using, the of_find_device_by_phandle() call will never work. It will for 2.6.29 and beyond. Currently, there is code in arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_soc.c which creates the platform_device which you're looking for. Look into that code to figure out how to get a pointer to that platform_device. you can probably iterate over the platform bus (hint: look at bus_find_device() and friends) to find it. g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev