Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: smsc911x: add u16 workaround for pxa platforms

[Robert Jarzmik]

Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 11:05:53AM +0200, Robert Jarzmik wrote:
>> Add a workaround for mainstone, idp and stargate2 boards, for u16 writes
>> which must be aligned on 32 bits addresses.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/smsc911x.txt | 2 ++
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/smsc911x.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/smsc911x.txt
>> index 3fed3c124411..224965b7453c 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/smsc911x.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/smsc911x.txt
>> @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ Optional properties:
>>  - reg-io-width : Specify the size (in bytes) of the IO accesses that
>>    should be performed on the device.  Valid value for SMSC LAN is
>>    2 or 4.  If it's omitted or invalid, the size would be 2.
>> +- reg-u16-align4 : Boolean, put in place the workaround the force all
>> +  		   u16 writes to be 32 bits aligned
>
> This property name and description is confusing.
>
> How exactly does this differ from having reg-io-width = <4>, which is
> documented immediately above?

reg-io-width specifies the IO size, ie. how many data lines are physically
connected from the system bus to the lan adapter.

reg-u16-align4 tells that a specific hardware doesn't support 16 bit writes not
being 32 bits aligned, or said differently that a "store" 16 bits wide on an
address of the format 4*n + 2 deserves a special handling in the driver, while a
store 16 bits wide on an address of the format 4*n can follow the simple casual
case.

I'm pretty open to any name you might suggest, these 3 hardwares I know of are
really crazy, you can see them in patch 1/3, in the _SMC_outw_align4() function
...

Cheers.

--
Robert