Re: [PATCH v6 04/52] dt-bindings: memory: tegra20: emc: Document nvidia,memory-controller property

[Dmitry Osipenko]

27.10.2020 22:30, Krzysztof Kozlowski пишет:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 10:17:19PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>> 27.10.2020 11:54, Krzysztof Kozlowski пишет:
>>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 01:16:47AM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>>>> Tegra20 External Memory Controller talks to DRAM chips and it needs to be
>>>> reprogrammed when memory frequency changes. Tegra Memory Controller sits
>>>> behind EMC and these controllers are tightly coupled. This patch adds the
>>>> new phandle property which allows to properly express connection of EMC
>>>> and MC hardware in a device-tree, it also put the Tegra20 EMC binding on
>>>> par with Tegra30+ EMC bindings, which is handy to have.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>>  .../bindings/memory-controllers/nvidia,tegra20-emc.txt          | 2 ++
>>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/memory-controllers/nvidia,tegra20-emc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/memory-controllers/nvidia,tegra20-emc.txt
>>>> index 567cffd37f3f..1b0d4417aad8 100644
>>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/memory-controllers/nvidia,tegra20-emc.txt
>>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/memory-controllers/nvidia,tegra20-emc.txt
>>>> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Properties:
>>>>    irrespective of ram-code configuration.
>>>>  - interrupts : Should contain EMC General interrupt.
>>>>  - clocks : Should contain EMC clock.
>>>> +- nvidia,memory-controller : Phandle of the Memory Controller node.
>>>
>>> It looks like you adding a required property which is an ABI break.
>> The T20 EMC driver is unused so far in upstream and it will become used
>> only once this series is applied. Hence it's fine to change the ABI.
> 
> The ABI is not about upstream, but downstream. There are no other
> upstreams using this ABI. Unless you have in mind that existing T20 EMC
> driver was a noop, doing absolutely nothing, therefore there is no
> breakage of any other users?

The T20 EMC driver was a 100% noop for now. It's safe to change the ABI.

The T30/124 EMC drivers have users, but these are unsafe drivers (with
the known issues) until this series is applied.