1 Commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Russell King	2a41e6070d	drivers/base: provide an infrastructure for componentised subsystems ... Subsystems such as ALSA, DRM and others require a single card-level device structure to represent a subsystem. However, firmware tends to describe the individual devices and the connections between them. Therefore, we need a way to gather up the individual component devices together, and indicate when we have all the component devices. We do this in DT by providing a "superdevice" node which specifies the components, eg: imx-drm { compatible = "fsl,drm"; crtcs = <&ipu1>; connectors = <&hdmi>; }; The superdevice is declared into the component support, along with the subcomponents. The superdevice receives callbacks to locate the subcomponents, and identify when all components are present. At this point, we bind the superdevice, which causes the appropriate subsystem to be initialised in the conventional way. When any of the components or superdevice are removed from the system, we unbind the superdevice, thereby taking the subsystem down. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>	2014-01-10 16:27:36 -08:00