Re: [LINUX PATCH v10 1/2] dt-bindings: mtd: arasan: Add device tree binding documentation

[Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>]

Hi Naga,

Naga Sureshkumar Relli <nagasure@xilinx.com> wrote on Tue, 21 Aug 2018
09:22:07 +0000:

> Hi Boris,
> 
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> > From: Boris Brezillon [mailto:boris.brezillon@bootlin.com]
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> > Subject: Re: [LINUX PATCH v10 1/2] dt-bindings: mtd: arasan: Add device tree binding
> > documentation
> > 
> > On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 05:47:18 +0000
> > Naga Sureshkumar Relli <nagasure@xilinx.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > > > +Required properties:
> > > > > +- compatible:		Should be "xlnx,zynqmp-nand" or "arasan,nfc-v3p10"  
> > > >
> > > > In your example it's not an "or" since both are defined.  
> > > In our previous discussion
> > > (https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/748901/)
> > > We decided to have compatible strings like " compatible = "<soc-vendor>,<ip-revision>",  
> > "arasan,<ip-revision>";"  
> > > So it should be either of these.
> > > so I will write something like below
> > > "Possible values are  "xlnx,zynqmp-nand"
> > > 			"arasan,nfc-v3p10"
> > > And in example I will mention any one compatible.
> > > Is it ok?  
> > 
> > Hm, why do you need arasan,nfc-v3p10 at all if it's supposed to be overloaded by a soc specific
> > compat?  
> Actually we put these compatible strings based on the comments on v7 series.
> Anyway I will just keep "xlnx,zynqmp-nand" as compatible.
> >   
> > > > > +
> > > > > +Optional properties:
> > > > > +- arasan,has-mdma: Enables DMA support  
> > > >
> > > > Can't you detect that based on the compatible (or thanks to a
> > > > register). If it's something you choose when configuring the IP and can't detect at  
> > runtime I guess it's fine.  
> > > There is no way to select DMA when configuring the IP.
> > > But it has internal DMA and there is a register to select PIO or DMA while starting a  
> > transfer.  
> > > So if user really don't want DMA, then we will never set DMA in the code based on DT  
> > property.
> > 
> > If it's a purely SW choice, then is shouldn't be described in the DT.
> > You can use a module param, but I'm not even sure why one would want to disable DMA.  
> UBIFS doesn't work with DMA, hence we are using a DT property to operate the driver in IO.
> But as you pointed (use virt_is_valid()), with this we can switch our driver to operate in PIO or DMA.
> I will remove this from DT.

I don't get why UBIFS would not work with DMA? This is a significant
drawback.

Miquèl