[U-Boot] [PATCH v6 07/17] dm: Add README for driver model

[Gerhard Sittig]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 09:32 -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> 
> +Declaring Drivers
> +-----------------
> +
> +A driver declaration looks something like this (see
> +drivers/demo/demo-shape.c):
> +
> +static const struct demo_ops simple_ops = {
> +	.hello = shape_hello,
> +	.status = shape_status,
> +};
> +
> +U_BOOT_DRIVER(demo_shape_drv) = {
> +	.name	= "demo_shape_drv",
> +	.id	= UCLASS_DEMO,
> +	.ops	= &simple_ops,
> +	.priv_data_size = sizeof(struct shape_data),
> +};

Should the variable 'simple_ops' be named 'shape_ops' or
'demo_shape_ops', to better reflect that it's the list of
operations for the 'shape' driver which implements the 'demo'
class API?  Because 'simple' is found nowhere else in this
example.


> +Things to punt for later
> +------------------------
> +
> [ ... ]
> +
> +For pre-relocation we can simply call the driver model init function. Then
> +post relocation we throw that away and re-init driver model again. For drivers
> +which require some sort of continuity between pre- and post-relocation
> +devices, we can provide access to the pre-relocatoin device pointers.

s/relocatoin/relocation/


virtually yours
Gerhard Sittig
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