Re: [PATCH 08/25] coresight: tmc: Clean up device specific data

[Suzuki K Poulose]

On 03/26/2019 09:53 PM, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> Hi Suzuki,
>
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 06:49:25PM +0000, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> > In preparation to use a consistent device naming scheme,
> > clean up the device link tracking in replicator driver.
> > Use the "coresight" device instead of the "real" parent device
> > for all internal purposes. All other requests (e.g, power management,
> > DMA operations) must use the "real" device which is the parent device.
> >
> > Since the CATU driver also uses the TMC-SG infrastructure, update
> > the callers to ensure they pass the appropriate device argument
> > for the tables.
> >
> > Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathie.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>

> Any reason for not getting rid of tmc_drvdata::dev like you did for the funnel,
> replicator and catu?

Nothing special, may be we use the dev more for various DMA operations.
But you're right, we can remove it.

Cheers
Suzuki