Re: [PATCH v13 3/3] dt-bindings: mfd: Document Renesas R-Car Gen3 RPC-IF controller bindings

[masonccyang]

Hi Jones,


> Subject
> 
> Re: [PATCH v13 3/3] dt-bindings: mfd: Document Renesas R-Car Gen3 RPC-IF 

> controller bindings
> 
> Hello!
> 
> On 06/03/2019 04:04 PM, Lee Jones wrote:
> 
> >>> Document the bindings used by the Renesas R-Car Gen3 RPC-IF 
controller.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Mason Yang <masonccyang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> ---
> >>>  .../devicetree/bindings/mfd/renesas-rpc-if.txt     | 65 
++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>>  1 file changed, 65 insertions(+)
> >>>  create mode 100644 
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/renesas-rpc-if.txt
> >>>
> >>> diff --git 
a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/renesas-rpc-if.txt b/
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/renesas-rpc-if.txt
> >>> new file mode 100644
> >>> index 0000000..20ec85b
> >>> --- /dev/null
> >>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/renesas-rpc-if.txt
> >>> @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
> >>> +Renesas R-Car Gen3 RPC-IF controller Device Tree Bindings
> >>> +---------------------------------------------------------
> >>> +
> >>> +RPC-IF supports both SPI NOR and HyperFlash (CFI-compliant flash)
> >>> +
> >>> +Required properties:
> >>> +- compatible: should be an SoC-specific compatible value, followed 
by
> >>> +      "renesas,rcar-gen3-rpc" as a fallback.
> >>> +      supported SoC-specific values are:
> >>> +      "renesas,r8a77995-rpc"   (R-Car D3)
> >>> +- reg: should contain three register areas:
> >>> +   first for RPC-IF registers,
> >>> +   second for the direct mapping read mode and
> >>> +   third for the write buffer area.
> >>> +- reg-names: should contain "regs", "dirmap" and "wbuf"
> >>> +- clocks: should contain 1 entries for the module's clock
> >>> +- clock-names: should contain "rpc"
> >>> +- power-domains: should contain system-controller(sysc) for 
power-domain-cell
> >>> +- resets: should contain clock pulse generator(cpg) for reset-cell,
> >>> +     power-domain-cell and clock-cell
> >>
> >>    That's just some nonsense, sorry...
> >>    I suggest that you stop reposting your patches as I'm going to 
post
> >> my version of this patchset RSN (based on your patches, of course) 
and I'm
> >> going to take care of fixing this file as well.
> > 
> > Why is this necessary?
> 
>    Because Mason doesn't want to develop the HyperFlash driver (or even 
move his code
> in preparation to this driver being developed). I must develop this 
driver, and I'd
> like to avoid the extra churn of mving the code between the MFD and SPI 
drivers.
> 

There might be some misunderstandings.

I had been requested to boot R-CAR from the OctaFlash and finally I have 
achieved it 
by patching SPI framework for OctaFlash operation and RPC-IF SPI driver. 

We were aware of the lacking support of RPC-IF in the Linux kernel at that 
time and 
I though I could contribute what I had developed.

At that time for my first submission of RPC-IF SPI on 15 NOv 2018, there 
was no any 
HyperFlash (or Hyper Bus) patches. And we did not consider it because the 
resource
of HyperFlash was shortage to us.

RPC-IF SPI was applied by Mark on 12,Feb 2019 but Marek comment to add 
supporting
MFD for RPC-IF and then I patched RPC-IF to MFD and SPI till this v13.

I always think about:

Is RPC-IF really good/suitable for MFD ?
RPC-IF works either in SPI or HyperFlash is decided by external hardware 
pins 
configuration and it can NOT switch it's operation mode in the run time. 
This is not like my understanding of MFD.

As your comments:
------------------------------------------------------------------------>
> +              flash = of_get_next_child(pdev->dev.of_node, NULL);
> +              if (!flash) {
> +                              dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "no flash node 
found\n");
> +                              return -ENODEV;
> +              }
> +
> +              if (of_device_is_compatible(flash, "jedec,spi-nor")) {
> +                              cell = &rpc_spi_ctlr;
> +              } else if (of_device_is_compatible(flash, "cfi-flash")) {
> +                              cell = &rpc_hf_ctlr;
> +              } else {
> +                              dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "unknown flash 
type\n");
> +                              return -ENODEV;
> +              }

Are there going to be more children coming?

If not, I'd argue that this is not an MFD.
<-------------------------------------------------------------------

I agreed with your opinion and I will resubmit RPC-IF in SPI only
if you also agree with it.


thanks & best regards,
Mason



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