Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] ata: ahci-platform: Add ports-implemented dt bindings.

[Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Srinivas Kandagatla
<srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> wrote:
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> On 29/03/16 15:11, Rob Herring wrote:
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>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Srinivas Kandagatla
>> <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> wrote:
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>>> On some SOCs PORTS_IMPL register value is never programmed by the BIOS
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>> s/BIOS/firmware/
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> BIOS is the word used in the AHCI SPECS so want to stick to this.

The spec being Intel's also says it is a PCI device... BIOS is a type
of firmware.

[...]

>>> +       sata0: sata@29000000 { /* Qualcomm APQ8064 */
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>> Do you really need another example just for this?
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>>> +               compatible = "generic-ahci";
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>> Where's your chip specific compatible string? You would not require a
>> DT update to fix this if you had that.
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> Possibly, But we really are not doing anything specific in the ahci driver
> which is not generic, that might be the reason why we skipped this in the
> first place.
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> I agree we could solve this issue in more than one way, The only advantage
> of this new bindings would be to other platforms benefiting from this
> workaround would not have to keep adding a new compatible string into the
> ahci-platform driver.
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> Like Annapurna Alpine platform seems to have the same issue.
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> Am ok to do it either way.

I'm saying do both. Adding ports-implemented is fine, but add an SoC
compatible string (in the dts, not the driver).

Rob