History log of /linux-master/include/linux/component.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 2502960f 13-Feb-2022 Yong Wu <yong.wu@mediatek.com>

component: Add common helper for compare/release functions

The component requires the compare/release functions, there are so many
copies in current kernel. Just define four common helpers for them.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yong Wu <yong.wu@mediatek.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220214060819.7334-2-yong.wu@mediatek.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 13e906e5 27-Jan-2022 Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>

component: Replace most references to 'master' with 'aggregate device'

Remove most references to 'master' in the code and replace them with
some form of 'aggregate device'. This better reflects the reality of
what this code does, i.e. an aggregate device that represents a
device like a GPU card once some set of devices that make up the
aggregate device probe and register with the component framework.

Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220127200141.1295328-2-swboyd@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# e4246b05 18-Feb-2019 Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

drivers/component: kerneldoc polish

Polish the kerneldoc a bit with suggestions from Randy.

v2: Randy found another typo: s/compent/component/

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Ramalingam C <ramalingam.c@intel.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 3521ee99 07-Feb-2019 Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

components: multiple components for a device

Component framework is extended to support multiple components for
a struct device. These will be matched with different masters based on
its sub component value.

We are introducing this, as I915 needs two different components
with different subcomponent value, which will be matched to two
different component masters(Audio and HDCP) based on the subcomponent
values.

v2: Add documenation.

v3: Rebase on top of updated documenation.

v4: Review from Rafael:
- Remove redundant "This" from kerneldoc (also in the previous patch)
- Streamline the logic in find_component() a bit.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> (v1 code)
Signed-off-by: Ramalingam C <ramalingam.c@intel.com> (v1 commit message)
Cc: Ramalingam C <ramalingam.c@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190207232759.14553-2-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch


# 4d69c80e 07-Feb-2019 Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

component: Add documentation

While typing these I think doing an s/component_master/aggregate/
would be useful:
- it's shorter :-)
- I think component/aggregate is much more meaningful naming than
component/puppetmaster or something like that. At least to my
English ear "aggregate" emphasizes much more the "assemble a pile of
things into something bigger" aspect, and there's not really much
of a control hierarchy between aggregate and constituing components.

But that's way more than a quick doc typing exercise ...

Thanks to Ram for commenting on an initial draft of these docs.

v2: Review from Rafael:
- git add Documenation/driver-api/component.rst
- lots of polish to the wording + spelling fixes.

v3: Review from Russell:
- s/framework/helper
- clarify the documentation for component_match_add functions.

v4: Remove a few superflous "This".

Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: "C, Ramalingam" <ramalingam.c@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190207232759.14553-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch


# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# ce657b1c 16-Nov-2015 Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

component: add support for releasing match data

The component helper treats the void match data pointer as an opaque
object which needs no further management. When device nodes being
passed, this is not true: the caller should pass its refcount to the
component helper, and there should be a way to drop the refcount when
the matching information is destroyed.

This patch provides a per-match release method in addition to the match
method to solve this issue. Rather than using component_match_add(),
users should use component_match_add_release() which takes an additional
function pointer for releasing this reference.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>


# fae9e2e0 18-Apr-2014 Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

component: remove old add_components method

Now that drivers create an array of component matches at probe time, we
can retire the old methods. This involves removing the add_components
master method, and removing component_master_add_child() from public
view. We also remove component_add_master() as that interface is no
longer useful.

Acked-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>


# 6955b582 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>


# 2a41e607 10-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>