The current documentation for this is not particularly enlightening. Add a little more detail.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org ---
include/dm/platdata.h | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/dm/platdata.h b/include/dm/platdata.h index cab93b071ba..25479b03d22 100644 --- a/include/dm/platdata.h +++ b/include/dm/platdata.h @@ -45,7 +45,22 @@ struct driver_info { #define U_BOOT_DEVICES(__name) \ ll_entry_declare_list(struct driver_info, __name, driver_info)
-/* Get a pointer to a given driver */ +/** + * Get a pointer to a given device info given its name + * + * With the declaration U_BOOT_DEVICE(name), DM_GET_DEVICE(name) will return a + * pointer to the struct driver_info created by that declaration. + * + * if OF_PLATDATA is enabled, from this it is possible to use the @dev member of + * struct driver_info to find the device pointer itself. + * + * TODO(sjg@chromium.org): U_BOOT_DEVICE() tells U-Boot to create a device, so + * the naming seems sensible, but DM_GET_DEVICE() is a bit of misnomer, since it + * finds the driver_info record, not the device. + * + * @__name: Driver name (C identifier, not a string. E.g. gpio7_at_ff7e0000) + * @return struct driver_info * to the driver that created the device + */ #define DM_GET_DEVICE(__name) \ ll_entry_get(struct driver_info, __name, driver_info)