Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] cpufreq: sun50i: Add D1 support

[Jernej Škrabec]

Dne ponedeljek, 18. december 2023 ob 16:53:45 CET je Andre Przywara napisal(a):
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 14:55:30 +0000
> Conor Dooley <conor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 12:05:41PM +0100, Brandon Cheo Fusi wrote:
> > > Add support for D1 based devices to the Allwinner H6 cpufreq
> > > driver
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Brandon Cheo Fusi <fusibrandon13@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/cpufreq/sun50i-cpufreq-nvmem.c | 1 +
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/sun50i-cpufreq-nvmem.c b/drivers/cpufreq/sun50i-cpufreq-nvmem.c
> > > index 32a9c88f8..ccf83780f 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/cpufreq/sun50i-cpufreq-nvmem.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/sun50i-cpufreq-nvmem.c
> > > @@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ static struct platform_driver sun50i_cpufreq_driver = {
> > >  
> > >  static const struct of_device_id sun50i_cpufreq_match_list[] = {
> > >  	{ .compatible = "allwinner,sun50i-h6" },
> > > +	{ .compatible = "allwinner,sun20i-d1" },  
> > 
> > I thought the feedback in v2 was to drop this change, since the
> > devicetree has the sun50i-h6 as a fallback compatible?
> 
> Well, this is the *board* (fallback) compatible string, so we cannot assign
> it as we like. The whole (existing) scheme is admittedly somewhat weird,
> because we not only match on a particular device compatible
> (like allwinner,sun20i-d1-operating-points), but also need to blocklist and
> re-match some parts against the *board compatible*, owing to the
> cpufreq-dt driver. The board name is basically used as a placeholder to
> find out the SoC, because there is (or was?) no other good way - the
> CPU DT nodes don't work for this. Back when this was introduced, this was
> the "least worst" solution.
> 
> I don't remember all the details, and didn't find time yet to look into
> this in more detail, but fixing this is non-trivial. If this isn't 6.8
> material, I might have a look at this later this week/month.

I would say it's 6.9 material. -rc6 already passed and it's not yet aligned
with all maintainers.

Best regards,
Jernej