Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: spi: Add Spreadtrum ADI controller documentation

[Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org>]

On 7 September 2017 at 19:44, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 07:03:18PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote:
>> On 7 September 2017 at 17:54, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 11:29:05AM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote:
>
>> >> The hwspinlock name should be "adi", and I will make it clear in next version.
>
>> > So there's other drivers that might also be accessing this IP block?
>
>> Yes. Other drivers (like regulator, RTC or charger ... ) can access
>> analog chip (like PMIC) by ADI controller. But the hardware spinlock
>> is used to synchronize between the multiple subsystems, since we only
>> have one ADI controller.
>
> If it were other drivers then the kernel should already be doing that
> but...

Not only kernel drivers, but also other systems' drivers will access
ADI too. So here we need one hardware spinlock to protect, I will add
more documentation.

>
>> > So does this driver control all the channels or are there other drivers
>> > (or hardware components) that control some of the other channels?
>
>> The ADI driver only controls 2 software channels (read/write), and
>> other hardware channels can be controlled by hardware components if we
>> set the hardware config.
>
> ...if it can be configured to allow other things to use it independently
> then this is fine, just needs a bit more documentation so someone can
> understand how the bindings and hardware match up.

OK. Thanks for your comments.

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Baolin.wang
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