dm: Update documentation for new bus features

Now that we have new bus features, update README.txt and the SPI docs to
explain these.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

2 files changed, 63 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/doc/driver-model/README.txt b/doc/driver-model/README.txt
index 0c1292b..f83264d 100644
--- a/doc/driver-model/README.txt
+++ b/doc/driver-model/README.txt
@@ -441,11 +441,18 @@ access to other devices. Example of buses include SPI and I2C. Typically
 the bus provides some sort of transport or translation that makes it
 possible to talk to the devices on the bus.
 
-Driver model provides a few useful features to help with implementing
-buses. Firstly, a bus can request that its children store some 'parent
-data' which can be used to keep track of child state. Secondly, the bus can
-define methods which are called when a child is probed or removed. This is
-similar to the methods the uclass driver provides.
+Driver model provides some useful features to help with implementing buses.
+Firstly, a bus can request that its children store some 'parent data' which
+can be used to keep track of child state. Secondly, the bus can define
+methods which are called when a child is probed or removed. This is similar
+to the methods the uclass driver provides. Thirdly, per-child platform data
+can be provided to specify things like the child's address on the bus. This
+persists across child probe()/remove() cycles.
+
+For consistency and ease of implementation, the bus uclass can specify the
+per-child platform data, so that it can be the same for all children of buses
+in that uclass. There are also uclass methods which can be called when
+children are bound and probed.
 
 Here an explanation of how a bus fits with a uclass may be useful. Consider
 a USB bus with several devices attached to it, each from a different (made
@@ -460,15 +467,23 @@ Each of the devices is connected to a different address on the USB bus.
 The bus device wants to store this address and some other information such
 as the bus speed for each device.
 
-To achieve this, the bus device can use dev->parent_priv in each of its
-three children. This can be auto-allocated if the bus driver has a non-zero
-value for per_child_auto_alloc_size. If not, then the bus device can
-allocate the space itself before the child device is probed.
+To achieve this, the bus device can use dev->parent_platdata in each of its
+three children. This can be auto-allocated if the bus driver (or bus uclass)
+has a non-zero value for per_child_platdata_auto_alloc_size. If not, then
+the bus device or uclass can allocate the space itself before the child
+device is probed.
 
 Also the bus driver can define the child_pre_probe() and child_post_remove()
 methods to allow it to do some processing before the child is activated or
 after it is deactivated.
 
+Similarly the bus uclass can define the child_post_bind() method to obtain
+the per-child platform data from the device tree and set it up for the child.
+The bus uclass can also provide a child_pre_probe() method. Very often it is
+the bus uclass that controls these features, since it avoids each driver
+having to do the same processing. Of course the driver can still tweak and
+override these activities.
+
 Note that the information that controls this behaviour is in the bus's
 driver, not the child's. In fact it is possible that child has no knowledge
 that it is connected to a bus. The same child device may even be used on two
@@ -495,7 +510,8 @@ bus device, regardless of its own views on the matter.
 The uclass for the device can also contain data private to that uclass.
 But note that each device on the bus may be a memeber of a different
 uclass, and this data has nothing to do with the child data for each child
-on the bus.
+on the bus. It is the bus' uclass that controls the child with respect to
+the bus.
 
 
 Driver Lifecycle
diff --git a/doc/driver-model/spi-howto.txt b/doc/driver-model/spi-howto.txt
index 719dbd5..5bc29ad 100644
--- a/doc/driver-model/spi-howto.txt
+++ b/doc/driver-model/spi-howto.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ How to port a SPI driver to driver model
 
 Here is a rough step-by-step guide. It is based around converting the
 exynos SPI driver to driver model (DM) and the example code is based
-around U-Boot v2014.10-rc2 (commit be9f643).
+around U-Boot v2014.10-rc2 (commit be9f643). This has been updated for
+v2015.04.
 
 It is quite long since it includes actual code examples.
 
@@ -262,8 +263,8 @@ U_BOOT_DEVICE(board_spi0) = {
 	.platdata = &platdata_spi0,
 };
 
-You will unfortunately need to put the struct into a header file in this
-case so that your board file can use it.
+You will unfortunately need to put the struct definition into a header file
+in this case so that your board file can use it.
 
 
 9. Add the device private data
@@ -592,3 +593,36 @@ board.
 
 You can use 'tools/patman/patman' to prepare, check and send patches for
 your work. See the README for details.
+
+20. A little note about SPI uclass features:
+
+The SPI uclass keeps some information about each device 'dev' on the bus:
+
+   struct dm_spi_slave_platdata - this is device_get_parent_platdata(dev)
+		This is where the chip select number is stored, along with
+		the default bus speed and mode. It is automatically read
+		from the device tree in spi_child_post_bind(). It must not
+		be changed at run-time after being set up because platform
+		data is supposed to be immutable at run-time.
+   struct spi_slave - this is device_get_parentdata(dev)
+		Already mentioned above. It holds run-time information about
+		the device.
+
+There are also some SPI uclass methods that get called behind the scenes:
+
+   spi_post_bind() - called when a new bus is bound
+		This scans the device tree for devices on the bus, and binds
+		each one. This in turn causes spi_child_post_bind() to be
+		called for each, which reads the device tree information
+		into the parent (per-child) platform data.
+   spi_child_post_bind() - called when a new child is bound
+		As mentioned above this reads the device tree information
+		into the per-child platform data
+   spi_child_pre_probe() - called before a new child is probed
+		This sets up the mode and speed in struct spi_slave by
+		copying it from the parent's platform data for this child.
+		It also sets the 'dev' pointer, needed to permit passing
+		'struct spi_slave' around the place without needing a
+		separate 'struct udevice' pointer.
+
+The above housekeeping makes it easier to write your SPI driver.