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From: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
To: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] ARM: dts: ls1021a-tsn: Use the DSPI controller in poll mode
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:33:51 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190911063350.GB17142@dragon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+h21hqMVdsUjBdtiHKtKGpyvuaOf25tc4h-GdDEBQqa3EB7tw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 09:16:39PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 at 21:13, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 09:06:14PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > > On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 at 21:05, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 04:10:51PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> >
> > > > > I noticed you skipped applying this patch, and I'm not sure that Shawn
> > > > > will review it/take it.
> > > > > Do you have a better suggestion how I can achieve putting the DSPI
> > > > > driver in poll mode for this board? A Kconfig option maybe?
> >
> > > > DT changes go through the relevant platform trees, not the
> > > > subsystem trees, so it's not something I'd expect to apply.
> >
> > > But at least is it something that you expect to see done through a
> > > device tree change?
> >
> > Well, it's not ideal - if it performs better all the time the
> > driver should probably just do it unconditionally.  If there's
> > some threashold where it tends to perform better then the driver
> > should check for that but IIRC it sounds like the interrupt just
> > isn't at all helpful here.
> 
> I can't seem to find any situation where it performs worse. Hence my
> question on whether it's a better idea to condition this behavior on a
> Kconfig option rather than a DT blob which may or may not be in sync.

DT is a description of hardware not condition for software behavior,
where module parameter is usually used for.

Shawn

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-11  6:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-22 21:15 [PATCH v2 0/5] Poll mode for NXP DSPI driver Vladimir Oltean
2019-08-22 21:15 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] spi: spi-fsl-dspi: Reduce indentation level in dspi_interrupt Vladimir Oltean
2019-08-23 11:02   ` Applied "spi: spi-fsl-dspi: Reduce indentation level in dspi_interrupt" to the spi tree Mark Brown
2019-08-22 21:15 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] spi: spi-fsl-dspi: Exit the ISR with IRQ_NONE when it's not ours Vladimir Oltean
2019-08-23 10:28   ` Mark Brown
2019-08-23 10:30     ` Vladimir Oltean
2019-08-23 10:50       ` Mark Brown
2019-08-23 10:59         ` Mark Brown
2019-08-23 12:06           ` Vladimir Oltean
2019-08-23 21:03             ` Mark Brown
2019-08-23 11:02   ` Applied "spi: spi-fsl-dspi: Exit the ISR with IRQ_NONE when it's not ours" to the spi tree Mark Brown
2019-08-22 21:15 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] spi: spi-fsl-dspi: Remove impossible to reach error check Vladimir Oltean
2019-08-23 11:02   ` Applied "spi: spi-fsl-dspi: Remove impossible to reach error check" to the spi tree Mark Brown
2019-08-22 21:15 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] spi: spi-fsl-dspi: Use poll mode in case the platform IRQ is missing Vladimir Oltean
2019-08-23 11:02   ` Applied "spi: spi-fsl-dspi: Use poll mode in case the platform IRQ is missing" to the spi tree Mark Brown
2019-08-22 21:15 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] ARM: dts: ls1021a-tsn: Use the DSPI controller in poll mode Vladimir Oltean
2019-08-26 13:10   ` Vladimir Oltean
2019-08-27 18:05     ` Mark Brown
2019-08-27 18:06       ` Vladimir Oltean
2019-08-27 18:13         ` Mark Brown
2019-08-27 18:16           ` Vladimir Oltean
2019-08-27 18:31             ` Mark Brown
2019-09-11  6:33             ` Shawn Guo [this message]
2019-09-11  7:00               ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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