On Sat, 30 May 2015, Vaibhav Hiremath wrote:

> RTC in pmic 88PM800 can run even the core is powered off, and user
> can set alarm in RTC. When the alarm is timed out, the PMIC will power up
> the core, and the whole system will boot up. And during PMIC driver probe,
> it will read some register to find out whether this boot is caused by RTC
> timeout or not, and pass on this information to the RTC driver.
> 
> So we need rtc platform data to be existed in PMIC driver to pass this
> information.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chao Xie <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Hiremath <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/mfd/88pm800.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/88pm800.c b/drivers/mfd/88pm800.c
> index 8ea4467..34546a1 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/88pm800.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/88pm800.c
> @@ -586,6 +586,25 @@ static int pm800_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
>                       return ret;
>       }
>  
> +     /*
> +      * RTC in pmic can run even the core is powered off, and user can set
> +      * alarm in RTC. When the alarm is time out, the PMIC will power up
> +      * the core, and the whole system will boot up. When PMIC driver is
> +      * probed, it will read out some register to find out whether this
> +      * boot is caused by RTC timeout or not, and it need pass this
> +      * information to RTC driver.
> +      * So we need rtc platform data to be existed to pass this information.
> +      */
> +     if (!pdata->rtc) {
> +             pdata->rtc = devm_kzalloc(&client->dev,
> +                                       sizeof(*(pdata->rtc)), GFP_KERNEL);
> +             if (!pdata->rtc) {
> +                     dev_err(&client->dev,
> +                                     "failed to allocate memory for rtc\n");
> +                     return -ENOMEM;
> +             }
> +     }
> +

Where is this memory first used?

>       ret = pm80x_init(client);
>       if (ret) {
>               dev_err(&client->dev, "pm800_init fail\n");

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