Re: [RFC PATCH v2 7/7] arm64: dts: qcom: Add the Inline Crypto Engine nodes

From: Abel Vesa
Date: Fri Mar 10 2023 - 04:43:36 EST


On 23-03-10 10:37:42, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 10/03/2023 10:34, Abel Vesa wrote:
> >>> I assume you mean it breaks if someone is using old approach DTS with a
> >>> kernel that would have ICE driver merged. Yes, that it does. And for
> >>> that, in the v3, I'll make of_qcom_ice_get check if there is a reg entry
> >>> with name "ice" and create an ICE instance but for the same dev as the
> >>> consumer driver. OTOH, if there is no reg entry called "ice", it will
> >>> look up a device based on phande of qcom,ice property. This will allow
> >>> legacy style DTS to work fine, while using the unified driver as a
> >>> library, in that case. For newer platforms, the recommended approach
> >>> will be to add a new ICE node and use qcom,ice property.
> >>
> >> For the driver this sounds good. I still think that existing (older) DTS
> >> should not have regs removed, because this affects other users of kernel
> >> DTS.
> >
> > Yes, that's what I meant, the already supported platforms will remain
> > with ice reg in the consumer node.
>
> ... unless you plan to add to them UFS ICE, which would be nice feature
> thus justifying DTS re-shuffle :)

By supported I meant the ones that have ICE support already :)

>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
>