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mfd: syscon: Decouple syscon interface from platform devices
Currently a syscon entity can be only registered directly through a platform device that binds to a dedicated syscon driver. However in certain use cases it is desirable to make a device used with another driver a syscon interface provider. For example, certain SoCs (e.g. Exynos) contain system controller blocks which perform various functions such as power domain control, CPU power management, low power mode control, but in addition contain certain IP integration glue, such as various signal masks, coprocessor power control, etc. In such case, there is a need to have a dedicated driver for such system controller but also share registers with other drivers. The latter is where the syscon interface is helpful. In case of DT based platforms, this patch decouples syscon object from syscon platform driver, and allows to create syscon objects first time when it is required by calling of syscon_regmap_lookup_by APIs and keep a list of such syscon objects along with syscon provider device_nodes and regmap handles. For non-DT based platforms, this patch keeps syscon platform driver structure so that syscon can be probed and such non-DT based drivers can use syscon_regmap_lookup_by_pdev API and access regmap handles. Once all users of "syscon_regmap_lookup_by_pdev" migrated to DT based, we can completely remove platform driver of syscon, and keep only helper functions to get regmap handles. Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Suggested-by: Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@gmail.com> Tested-by: Vivek Gautam <gautam.vivek@samsung.com> Tested-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Pankaj Dubey <pankaj.dubey@samsung.com> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de> Reviewed-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
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