On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 11:58:18AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> Providing a subsystem-level API helper seems over-kill just to save a
> few lines of C-code. Previous commits saw us convert mfd_clone_cell()'s
> only user over to use a more traditional style of MFD child-device
> registration. Now we can remove the superfluous helper from the MFD API.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jo...@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thomp...@linaro.org>
> ---
> drivers/mfd/mfd-core.c | 33 ---------------------------------
> include/linux/mfd/core.h | 18 ------------------
> 2 files changed, 51 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/mfd-core.c b/drivers/mfd/mfd-core.c
> index 23276a80e3b4..8126665bb2d8 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/mfd-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/mfd-core.c
> @@ -382,38 +382,5 @@ int devm_mfd_add_devices(struct device *dev, int id,
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(devm_mfd_add_devices);
>
> -int mfd_clone_cell(const char *cell, const char **clones, size_t n_clones)
> -{
> - struct mfd_cell cell_entry;
> - struct device *dev;
> - struct platform_device *pdev;
> - int i;
> -
> - /* fetch the parent cell's device (should already be registered!) */
> - dev = bus_find_device_by_name(&platform_bus_type, NULL, cell);
> - if (!dev) {
> - printk(KERN_ERR "failed to find device for cell %s\n", cell);
> - return -ENODEV;
> - }
> - pdev = to_platform_device(dev);
> - memcpy(&cell_entry, mfd_get_cell(pdev), sizeof(cell_entry));
> -
> - WARN_ON(!cell_entry.enable);
> -
> - for (i = 0; i < n_clones; i++) {
> - cell_entry.name = clones[i];
> - /* don't give up if a single call fails; just report error */
> - if (mfd_add_device(pdev->dev.parent, -1, &cell_entry,
> - cell_entry.usage_count, NULL, 0, NULL))
> - dev_err(dev, "failed to create platform device '%s'\n",
> - clones[i]);
> - }
> -
> - put_device(dev);
> -
> - return 0;
> -}
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(mfd_clone_cell);
> -
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Ian Molton, Dmitry Baryshkov");
> diff --git a/include/linux/mfd/core.h b/include/linux/mfd/core.h
> index b43fc5773ad7..bd8c0e089164 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mfd/core.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mfd/core.h
> @@ -86,24 +86,6 @@ struct mfd_cell {
> extern int mfd_cell_enable(struct platform_device *pdev);
> extern int mfd_cell_disable(struct platform_device *pdev);
>
> -/*
> - * "Clone" multiple platform devices for a single cell. This is to be used
> - * for devices that have multiple users of a cell. For example, if an mfd
> - * driver wants the cell "foo" to be used by a GPIO driver, an MTD driver,
> - * and a platform driver, the following bit of code would be use after first
> - * calling mfd_add_devices():
> - *
> - * const char *fclones[] = { "foo-gpio", "foo-mtd" };
> - * err = mfd_clone_cells("foo", fclones, ARRAY_SIZE(fclones));
> - *
> - * Each driver (MTD, GPIO, and platform driver) would then register
> - * platform_drivers for "foo-mtd", "foo-gpio", and "foo", respectively.
> - * The cell's .enable/.disable hooks should be used to deal with hardware
> - * resource contention.
> - */
> -extern int mfd_clone_cell(const char *cell, const char **clones,
> - size_t n_clones);
> -
> /*
> * Given a platform device that's been created by mfd_add_devices(), fetch
> * the mfd_cell that created it.
> --
> 2.17.1
>
