Re: [GIT PULL 3/7] drivers: soc: EXYNOS drivers for v4.6

From: pankaj.dubey
Date: Wed Feb 24 2016 - 23:18:07 EST


Hi Krzysztof,

On Thursday 25 February 2016 06:13 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 25.02.2016 07:22, Olof Johansson wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 09:34:02AM +0900, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>> Hi Arnd, Kevin and Olof,
>>>
>>> This finally moves SROM controller and PMU code to separate
>>> driver under drivers/soc/samsung.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Krzysztof
>>>
>>>
>>> The following changes since commit 92e963f50fc74041b5e9e744c330dca48e04f08d:
>>>
>>> Linux 4.5-rc1 (2016-01-24 13:06:47 -0800)
>>>
>>> are available in the git repository at:
>>>
>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/krzk/linux.git tags/samsung-drivers-soc-srom-pmu-4.6
>>>
>>> for you to fetch changes up to 74a6659e8bf193066ba6bf365de66baa897aebb1:
>>>
>>> drivers: soc: Add support for Exynos PMU driver (2016-01-25 10:46:59 +0900)
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>> A set of changes adding new drivers under drivers/soc/samsung:
>>>
>>> 1. Split code for handling SROM registers out of arm/mach-exynos
>>> in to separate SROM controller driver under drivers/soc/samsung.
>>> The driver will save and restore SROM registers during Suspend
>>> to RAM.
>>>
>>> 2. Add to this SROM controller driver support for bank configuration
>>> used by child devices. This allows usage of SMSC9115 Ethernet chip
>>> on SMDK5410 (Exynos5410) directly connected to SROM controller.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> OMAP has GPMC drivers under drivers/memory. I wonder if SROM should go there
>> too, since it's a quite similar bus.
>
> I wish I get this feedback before, when we were discussing the SROM
> patches. :/
>
> Indeed this sounds reasonable. On some boards the omap-gpmc is used for
> the same purpose: interfacing to smsc,lan9115 (like on SMDK5410).
>
>
>> Feel free to respin this without SROM now, so we can get the other pieces in
>> sooner and then revisit the SROM asyncronously. That'll remove the dependencies
>> on DT as well.
>
> Okay, I'll rebase all drivers/soc branches and respin the pull request
> so PMU driver and other stuff could go in.
>
> BTW, just in case, although PMU stands for "Power Management Unit" I
> don't think it should be placed under drivers/power because it is not a
> avs/charger/battery/reset driver. Existing power-related drivers are
> under driver/soc (bcm, dove, tegra).
>
> Re-work of SROM drivers could be started on top of it.
>

Please let me know if I need to take care of any of this work.

Thanks,
Pankaj Dubey
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
>