Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: phy: Add Qualcomm Synopsys High-Speed USB PHY binding

[Vivek Gautam]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 12:29 PM Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 09:13:38AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> <snip>
> > > > > +- qcom,init-seq:
> > > > > +    Value type: <u32 array>
> > > > > +    Definition: Should contain a sequence of <offset value delay> tuples to
> > > > > +                program 'value' into phy register at 'offset' with 'delay'
> > > > > +           in us afterwards.
> > > >
> > > > If we wanted this type of thing in DT, we'd have a generic binding (or
> > > > forth).
> > >
> > > Right now, this is a qualcomm usb phy specific bindings - first used in
> > > qcom,usb-hs-phy.txt and I extended it a bit for my phy.  As this is not
> > > a so good hardware description, I'm a little hesitated to make it
> > > generic for other platforms to use in general.  What about we put off it
> > > a little bit until we see more platforms need the same thing?
> >
> > I'm not saying I want it generic. Quite the opposite. I don't think we
> > should have it either generically or vendor specific. The main thing I
> > have a problem with is the timing information because then we're more
> > that just data. Without that we're talking about a bunch of properties
> > for register fields or just raw register values in DT. That becomes
> > more of a judgement call. There's not too much value in making a
> > driver translate a bunch of properties just to stuff them into
> > registers on init. But then just allowing any raw register value to be
> > in DT could be easily abused.
>
> Rob,
>
> I agree with your comments.  Honestly, I'm not comfortable with this
> 'qcom,init-seq' thing in the first impression.  The similar existence in
> mainline qcom,usb-hs-phy.txt makes me think it might be acceptable with
> the timing data added.  Okay, I know your position on this now.
>
> @Sriharsha,
>
> Seeing that 'qcom,init-seq' is being configured with the exactly same
> values for both HS phys in SoC level dts file (qcs404.dtsi), I think
> such settings can be moved into driver code as SoC specific data.
> Unless you have a different view on this, I will do it with v4.

phy-qcom-qmp and phy-qcom-qusb2 have been maintaining such SoC specific
init sequences in the drivers if you would like to have pointers from them.

Thanks
Vivek

>
> Shawn



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