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From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
To: Alban <albeu@free.fr>,
	Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
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	Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/29] mtd: Add support for reading MTD devices via the nvmem API
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 18:46:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180819184609.6dcdbb9a@bbrezillon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180819133106.0420df5f@tock>

On Sun, 19 Aug 2018 13:31:06 +0200
Alban <albeu@free.fr> wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 18:27:20 +0200
> Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Bartosz,
> > 
> > On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 10:05:03 +0200
> > Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> wrote:
> >   
> > > From: Alban Bedel <albeu@free.fr>
> > > 
> > > Allow drivers that use the nvmem API to read data stored on MTD devices.
> > > For this the mtd devices are registered as read-only NVMEM providers.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Alban Bedel <albeu@free.fr>
> > > [Bartosz:
> > >   - use the managed variant of nvmem_register(),
> > >   - set the nvmem name]
> > > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>    
> > 
> > What happened to the 2 other patches of Alban's series? I'd really
> > like the DT case to be handled/agreed on in the same patchset, but
> > IIRC, Alban and Srinivas disagreed on how this should be represented.
> > I hope this time we'll come to an agreement, because the MTD <-> NVMEM
> > glue has been floating around for quite some time...  
> 
> These other patches were to fix what I consider a fundamental flaw in
> the generic NVMEM bindings, however we couldn't agree on this point.
> Bartosz later contacted me to take over this series and I suggested to
> just change the MTD NVMEM binding to use a compatible string on the
> NVMEM cells as an alternative solution to fix the clash with the old
> style MTD partition.
> 
> However all this has no impact on the code needed to add NVMEM support
> to MTD, so the above patch didn't change at all.

It does have an impact on the supported binding though.
nvmem->dev.of_node is automatically assigned to mtd->dev.of_node, which
means people will be able to define their NVMEM cells directly under
the MTD device and reference them from other nodes (even if it's not
documented), and as you said, it conflict with the old MTD partition
bindings. So we'd better agree on this binding before merging this
patch.

I see several options:

1/ provide a way to tell the NVMEM framework not to use parent->of_node
   even if it's != NULL. This way we really don't support defining
   NVMEM cells in the DT, and also don't support referencing the nvmem
   device using a phandle.

2/ define a new binding where all nvmem-cells are placed in an
   "nvmem" subnode (just like we have this "partitions" subnode for
   partitions), and then add a config->of_node field so that the
   nvmem provider can explicitly specify the DT node representing the
   nvmem device. We'll also need to set this field to ERR_PTR(-ENOENT)
   in case this node does not exist so that the nvmem framework knows
   that it should not assign nvmem->dev.of_node to parent->of_node

3/ only declare partitions as nvmem providers. This would solve the
   problem we have with partitions defined in the DT since
   defining sub-partitions in the DT is not (yet?) supported and
   partition nodes are supposed to be leaf nodes. Still, I'm not a big
   fan of this solution because it will prevent us from supporting
   sub-partitions if we ever want/need to.

4/ Add a ->of_xlate() hook that would be called if present by the
   framework instead of using the default parsing we have right now.

5/ Tell the nvmem framework the name of the subnode containing nvmem
   cell definitions (if NULL that means cells are directly defined
   under the nvmem provider node). We would set it to "nvmem-cells" (or
   whatever you like) for the MTD case.

There are probably other options (some were proposed by Alban and
Srinivas already), but I'd like to get this sorted out before we merge
this patch.

Alban, Srinivas, any opinion?

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-19 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-10  8:04 [PATCH v2 00/29] at24: remove at24_platform_data Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:04 ` [PATCH v2 01/29] nvmem: add support for cell lookups Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-24 15:08   ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-24 15:27     ` Andrew Lunn
2018-08-25  6:27       ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-27  8:56         ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-27  9:00           ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-27 13:37             ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-27 14:01               ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-28 10:15               ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-28 11:56                 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-28 13:45                   ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-28 14:41                     ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-28 14:48                       ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-28 14:53                       ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-28 15:09                         ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-10  8:04 ` [PATCH v2 02/29] Documentation: nvmem: document lookup entries Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-31 20:30   ` Brian Norris
2018-09-01 13:11     ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 03/29] nvmem: add a notifier chain Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:33   ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 04/29] nvmem: provide nvmem_dev_name() Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:10   ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 05/29] nvmem: remove the name field from struct nvmem_device Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:33   ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 06/29] mtd: Add support for reading MTD devices via the nvmem API Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-17 16:27   ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-19 11:31     ` Alban
2018-08-19 16:46       ` Boris Brezillon [this message]
2018-08-20 10:43         ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-20 18:20           ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-20 18:50             ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-20 19:06               ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-20 21:27             ` Alban
2018-08-21  5:07               ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-21  9:50             ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-21  9:56               ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-21 10:11                 ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-21 10:43                   ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-21 11:39               ` Alban
2018-08-21 12:00                 ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-21 13:01                   ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-23 10:29                     ` Alban
2018-08-24 14:39                       ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-28 10:20                       ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-20 22:53         ` Alban
2018-08-21  5:44           ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-21  9:38             ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-21 11:31               ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-21 13:34                 ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-21 13:37                   ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-21 13:57                     ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-21 12:27             ` Alban
2018-08-21 12:57               ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-21 13:57                 ` Alban
2018-08-21 14:26                   ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-21 14:33                     ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 07/29] ARM: davinci: dm365-evm: use nvmem lookup for mac address Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 08/29] ARM: davinci: dm644-evm: " Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 09/29] ARM: davinci: dm646x-evm: " Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 10/29] ARM: davinci: da830-evm: " Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 11/29] ARM: davinci: mityomapl138: add nvmem cells lookup entries Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 12/29] ARM: davinci: da850-evm: use nvmem lookup for mac address Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 13/29] ARM: davinci: da850-evm: remove unnecessary include Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 14/29] net: simplify eth_platform_get_mac_address() Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10 14:39   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-08-10 16:17     ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 15/29] net: split eth_platform_get_mac_address() into subroutines Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-31 19:54   ` Brian Norris
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 16/29] net: add support for nvmem to eth_platform_get_mac_address() Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 17/29] net: davinci_emac: use eth_platform_get_mac_address() Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 18/29] ARM: davinci: da850-evm: remove dead MTD code Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 19/29] ARM: davinci: mityomapl138: don't read the MAC address from machine code Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 20/29] ARM: davinci: dm365-evm: use device properties for at24 eeprom Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 21/29] ARM: davinci: da830-evm: " Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 22/29] ARM: davinci: dm644x-evm: " Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 23/29] ARM: davinci: dm646x-evm: " Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 24/29] ARM: davinci: sffsdr: fix the at24 eeprom device name Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 25/29] ARM: davinci: sffsdr: use device properties for at24 eeprom Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 26/29] ARM: davinci: remove dead code related to MAC address reading Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 27/29] ARM: davinci: mityomapl138: use nvmem notifiers Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 28/29] ARM: davinci: mityomapl138: use device properties for at24 eeprom Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 29/29] eeprom: at24: kill at24_platform_data Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-08-10  8:41 ` [PATCH v2 00/29] at24: remove at24_platform_data Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-08-31 19:46 ` Brian Norris
2018-10-03 20:15   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-10-03 20:30     ` Lukas Wunner
2018-10-03 21:04     ` Florian Fainelli
2018-10-04 11:06       ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2018-10-04 13:58         ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-10-04 14:35           ` Sowmini Varadhan
2018-10-04 14:38             ` Arnd Bergmann

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