Re: [PATCH v3 5/8] dt-bindings: mtd: ti,gpmc-nand: Convert to yaml

[Roger Quadros]

Hi Miquel,

On 07/09/2021 19:35, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> Hi Grygorii,
> 
>>>   
>>>> +
>>>> +  nand-bus-width:
>>>> +    description:
>>>> +      Bus width to the NAND chip
>>>> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
>>>> +    enum: [8, 16]
>>>> +    default: 8  
>>>
>>> This is part of nand-controller.yaml binding and should not be there.
>>>   
>>>> +
>>>> +allOf:
>>>> +  - $ref: "../memory-controllers/ti,gpmc-child.yaml"  
>>>
>>> Maybe you need to reference the nand controller bindings as well
>>>   
>>
>> This will not work out of the box :( as nand-controller.yaml defines both
>>   nand controller and nand memory. It potentially might work if it will be possible to split
>> nand memory definition (or nand memory properties) out of and-controller.yaml, similarly to
>> ti,gpmc-child.yaml from this series.
> 
> What you think would be the issue?

The issue is that dt_binding checks will fail if I reference nand-controller.yaml
as we currently represent the controller as follows

memory-controller { /* GPMC controller */
	memory-controller-props;
	nand-chip {
		/* @chip select 0 */
		nand-controller-props;
		memory-controller-timing-props;
		chip-props;
	}
	nand-chip {
		/* @chip select 1 */
		nand-controller-props;
		memory-controller-timing-props;
		chip-props;
	}
	nor-chip {
		/* @chip select 2 */
		memory-controller-timing-props;
		chip-props;
	}
}

The NAND controller IO registers are at different addresses for different
chip select regions. Also, this is one way we can specify GPMC settings/timings
for different chip selects.

> 
> I am not opposed to split nand-controller.yaml into
> nand-controller.yaml and nand-chip.yaml if it simplifies the
> description of controllers but I don't get why it would be needed. In
> particular since we expect all drivers to support the
> 
> nand-controller {
> 	controller-props;
> 	nand-chip {
> 		chip-props;
> 	}
> }

Changing to this format will cause a lot of churn in DT files, which I'm not sure
if it gives enough benefit. 
TI platforms will never have 2 NAND chips in the same chip select region.

> 
> organization which has been enforced since at least 2018. Having a
> controller vs. chip representation is fundamentally right. But here I
> see how "legacy" are these bindings with so much unneeded specific "ti,"
> properties... On one side it would be good to verify that the driver
> supports this representation (which I believe is true) and on the other
> side maybe it's time to advertise "better" bindings as well.

Yes, I'm OK to mark ti specific properties deprecated and use standard NAND chip
bindings.

cheers,
-roger