History log of /include/linux/component.h
Revision Date Author Comments
6955b58254c2bcee8a7b55ce06468a645dc98ec5 19-Apr-2014 Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> component: add support for component match array

Add support for generating a set of component matches at master probe
time, and submitting them to the component layer. This allows the
component layer to perform the matches internally without needing to
call into the master driver, and allows for further restructuring of
the component helper.

Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2a41e6070dd7ef539d0f3b1652b4839d04378e11 11-Jan-2014 Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> 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>