Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] dt-bindings: scsi: ufs: add document for hi3660-ufs

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Bu Tao <butao@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> å 2017/6/17 5:51, Arnd Bergmann åé:
>> On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Bu Tao <butao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> +Optional properties for board device:
>>> +- ufs-hi3660-use-rate-B                : specifies UFS rate-B
>>> +- ufs-hi3660-broken-fastauto   : specifies no fastauto
>>> +- ufs-hi3660-use-HS-GEAR3      : specifies UFS HS-GEAR3
>>> +- ufs-hi3660-use-HS-GEAR2      : specifies UFS HS-GEAR2
>>> +- ufs-hi3660-use-HS-GEAR1      : specifies UFS HS-GEAR1
>>> +- ufs-hi3660-broken-clk-gate-bypass    : specifies no clk-gate
>>> +- ufs-hi3660-use-one-line      : specifies UFS use one line work
>>> +- reset-gpio                   : specifies to reset devices
>>
>>
>> Some of these sound rather generic and might apply to UFS implementations
>> other than hi3660, so I'd suggest adding them to the base ufs binding with
>> a generic name instead.
>>
>> Any DT properties that might be useful across multiple implementations
>> should be parsed in generic code that gets called by the individual
>> drivers,
>> and then the properties that are specific to the integration work done by
>> hisilicon should be prefixed with "hisilicon,", but not normally with the
>> SoC name: it is quite possible that another SoC will be derived from this
>> chip and it should reuse the properties.
>
>
> I do not know wheher other SoC need to use the optional properties as
> abover. So here the name of the optional properties has "hi3660".

They should not have "hi3660" in their names either way, independent
of where they are used.

>> (note: this is different from the value of the "compatible" property that
>> is meant to be as specific as possible".
>>
>> Also, please clarify how your binding relates to the ufshcd binding
>> in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ufs/ufshcd-pltfrm.txt: does
>> hi3660 implement any registers that are shared with ufshcd, or does
>> it use the same physical interface with a different register set?
>
> No, only show how to use the dt-binding for hi3660 SoC

My question was about the hardware: does hi3660 implement ufshcd
or not?

      Arnd