[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH] dm: ensure device names are unique

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Tue Apr 26 23:30:28 CEST 2016


From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>

It is possible for HW to contain multiple instances of the same device. In
this case, the name passed to device_bind() may not be unique across all
devices within its uclass. One example is a system with multiple identical
PCI Ethernet devices. Another might be a system with multiple identical
I2C GPIO expanders, each connected to a separate I2C bus, yet using the
same I2C address on that bus and hence having the same DT node name.

Enhance the code to detect this situation, and append a sequence number so
the device name to ensure uniqueness.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
---
Some possible issues with this patch:

1) Doing this in bind() rather than probe() means dev->seq isn't
available, so can't be used to generate the unique name. This process
should be done during bind() rather than probe() though, since devices can
be seen (e.g. by running "dm tree") before they're probed. Perhaps the
uclass_resolve_seq() should be called by bind() not probe().

2) uclass_find_device_by_name() needs to look up the uclass pointer again
even though device_bind() already knows it.

3) Iterating over the list to find the count of devices in the uclass is a
bit annoying. Should the uclass maintain this count so it doesn't need to
be re-calculated each time?
---
 drivers/core/device-remove.c |  4 ++++
 drivers/core/device.c        | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 include/dm/device.h          |  3 +++
 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/core/device-remove.c b/drivers/core/device-remove.c
index e1714b2202b6..a2400989024a 100644
--- a/drivers/core/device-remove.c
+++ b/drivers/core/device-remove.c
@@ -112,6 +112,10 @@ int device_unbind(struct udevice *dev)
 
 	devres_release_all(dev);
 
+	if (dev->flags & DM_FLAG_ALLOC_NAME) {
+		free((char *)dev->name);
+		dev->name = NULL;
+	}
 	free(dev);
 
 	return 0;
diff --git a/drivers/core/device.c b/drivers/core/device.c
index 269087a084cf..fcac0073c642 100644
--- a/drivers/core/device.c
+++ b/drivers/core/device.c
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ int device_bind(struct udevice *parent, const struct driver *drv,
 		const char *name, void *platdata, int of_offset,
 		struct udevice **devp)
 {
-	struct udevice *dev;
+	struct udevice *dev, *dev2;
 	struct uclass *uc;
 	int size, ret = 0;
 
@@ -62,6 +62,23 @@ int device_bind(struct udevice *parent, const struct driver *drv,
 	dev->driver = drv;
 	dev->uclass = uc;
 
+	if (!uclass_find_device_by_name(uc->uc_drv->id, dev->name, &dev2)) {
+		char *unique_name;
+		int count;
+		size = strlen(name) + 4 + 1;
+		unique_name = malloc(size);
+		if (!unique_name) {
+			ret = -ENOMEM;
+			goto fail_alloc1;
+		}
+		dev->flags |= DM_FLAG_ALLOC_NAME;
+		dev->name = unique_name;
+		count = 0;
+		list_for_each_entry(dev2, &uc->dev_head, uclass_node)
+			count++;
+		snprintf(unique_name, size, "%s.%d", name, count);
+	}
+
 	dev->seq = -1;
 	dev->req_seq = -1;
 	if (CONFIG_IS_ENABLED(OF_CONTROL) && CONFIG_IS_ENABLED(DM_SEQ_ALIAS)) {
@@ -186,6 +203,10 @@ fail_alloc2:
 		dev->platdata = NULL;
 	}
 fail_alloc1:
+	if (dev->flags & DM_FLAG_ALLOC_NAME) {
+		free((char *)dev->name);
+		dev->name = NULL;
+	}
 	devres_release_all(dev);
 
 	free(dev);
diff --git a/include/dm/device.h b/include/dm/device.h
index dad7591dfacb..976ba72a550c 100644
--- a/include/dm/device.h
+++ b/include/dm/device.h
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ struct driver_info;
 /* Device is bound */
 #define DM_FLAG_BOUND			(1 << 6)
 
+/* DM is responsible for allocating and freeing device name */
+#define DM_FLAG_ALLOC_NAME		(1 << 7)
+
 /**
  * struct udevice - An instance of a driver
  *
-- 
2.8.1



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