[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 1/3] drivers: Add board uclass

[Simon Glass]

On 31 July 2018 at 02:44, Mario Six <mario.six at gdsys.cc> wrote:
> Since there is no canonical "board device" that can be used in board
> files, it is difficult to use DM function for board initialization in
> these cases.
>
> Hence, add a uclass that implements a simple "board device", which can
> hold devices not suitable anywhere else in the device tree, and is also
> able to read encoded information, e.g. hard-wired GPIOs on a GPIO
> expander, read-only memory ICs, etc. that carry information about the
> hardware.
>
> The devices of this uclass expose methods to read generic data types
> (integers, strings, booleans) to encode the information provided by the
> hardware.
>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Mario Six <mario.six at gdsys.cc>
> ---
>
> v3 -> v4:
> * Fixed botched Kconfig entry
>
> v2 -> v3:
> * Expanded comment on detect()
> * Added error handling in example
> * Renamed get_board() to board_get()
> * Fixed style violations
> * Documented board_get
> * Made comments conform with kernel-doc
> * Fixed SPDC-License-Identifier position
>
> v1 -> v2:
> * Corrected description of dev parameter of devinfo_detect
> * Added size parameter to devinfo_get_str
> * Expanded uclass documentation
> * Added function to get devinfo instance
> * Renamed the uclass from devinfo to board
>
> ---
>  drivers/Kconfig              |   2 +
>  drivers/Makefile             |   1 +
>  drivers/board/Kconfig        |   7 +++
>  drivers/board/Makefile       |   6 ++
>  drivers/board/board-uclass.c |  60 +++++++++++++++++++
>  include/board.h              | 139 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/dm/uclass-id.h       |   1 +
>  7 files changed, 216 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/board/Kconfig
>  create mode 100644 drivers/board/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 drivers/board/board-uclass.c
>  create mode 100644 include/board.h

Applied to u-boot-dm, and now in mainline, thanks!