Re: [PATCH v1 1/5] dt-bindings: soc: qcom: Add memory_dump driver bindings

[Elliot Berman]

Hi Zhenhua,

On 10/23/2023 2:27 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 23/10/2023 11:20, Zhenhua Huang wrote:
>> Add bindings for the QCOM Memory Dump driver providing debug
> 
> Bindings are for hardware, not driver. This suggests it is not suitable
> for bindings at all.
> 
>> facilities. Firmware dumps system cache, internal memory,
>> peripheral registers to reserved DDR as per the table which
>> populated by the driver, after crash and warm reset.
> 
> Again driver :/
> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhenhua Huang <quic_zhenhuah@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  .../bindings/soc/qcom/qcom,mem-dump.yaml           | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++
>>  .../devicetree/bindings/sram/qcom,imem.yaml        | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  2 files changed, 86 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/qcom/qcom,mem-dump.yaml
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/qcom/qcom,mem-dump.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/qcom/qcom,mem-dump.yaml
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..87f8f51
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/qcom/qcom,mem-dump.yaml
>> @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
>> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause
>> +%YAML 1.2
>> +---
>> +$id: "http://devicetree.org/schemas/soc/qcom/qcom,mem-dump.yaml#";
>> +$schema: "http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#";
> 
> Drop quotes.
> 
> It does not look like you tested the bindings, at least after quick
> look. Please run `make dt_binding_check` (see
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/writing-schema.rst for instructions).
> Maybe you need to update your dtschema and yamllint.
> 
>> +
>> +title: Qualcomm memory dump
> 
> Describe hardware, not driver.
> 
>> +
>> +description: |
>> +  Qualcomm memory dump driver dynamically reserves memory and provides hints(id and size)
> 
> Again, driver, so not suitable for DTS and bindings.

Could you create platform driver which binds directly to the

compatible = "qcom,qcom-imem-mem-dump-table"

You can look up the size from the dump table driver or have 2 reg properties 
in the -table node itself (so no need for the table-size node either).