Re: [PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: thermal: Add binding document for SR thermal

[Srinath Mannam <srinath.mannam@broadcom.com>]

Hi,

Please let me know if you have any comments to this patch.
If not can you please accept this patch.

Regards,
Srinath.

On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 11:36 AM, Srinath Mannam
<srinath.mannam@broadcom.com> wrote:
> Hi Rob Herring,
>
> Please find my comments in line..
>
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 7:59 PM, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 3:51 AM, Srinath Mannam
>> <srinath.mannam@broadcom.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Rob Herring,
>>>
>>> Thank you for the review.
>>> Please find my answers inline..
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 10:18 PM, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 11:11:22AM +0530, Srinath Mannam wrote:
>>>>> From: Pramod Kumar <pramod.kumar@broadcom.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> Add binding document for supported thermal implementation
>>>>> in Stingray.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Pramod Kumar <pramod.kumar@broadcom.com>
>>>>> Reviewed-by: Ray Jui <ray.jui@broadcom.com>
>>>>> Reviewed-by: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>
>>>>> Reviewed-by: Srinath Mannam <srinath.mannam@broadcom.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>  .../bindings/thermal/brcm,sr-thermal.txt           | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>  1 file changed, 45 insertions(+)
>>>>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/brcm,sr-thermal.txt
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/brcm,sr-thermal.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/brcm,sr-thermal.txt
>>>>> new file mode 100644
>>>>> index 0000000..33f9e11
>>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/brcm,sr-thermal.txt
>>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
>>>>> +* Broadcom Stingray Thermal
>>>>> +
>>>>> +This binding describes thermal sensors that is part of Stingray SoCs.
>>>>> +
>>>>> +Required properties:
>>>>> +- compatible : Must be "brcm,sr-thermal"
>>>>> +- reg : memory where tmon data will be available.
>>>>
>>>> What type of memory is this?
>>> This is shared memory(cache-able) which is shared between two micro controllers.
>>
>> What else is in this shared memory? You should probably be
>> representing that as a whole somewhere in DT.
> Nothing else except 4 byte memory containing temperature value of one
> thermal zone.
> At present we configured 6 thermal zones. So six separate 4byte
> memories provided in
> shared memory.
>>
>>> One micro controller update temperature of all thermal zones in this
>>> shared memory.
>>> thermal driver running on another micro controller monitors
>>> temperature data of all thermal zones.
>>>>
>>>>> +
>>>>> +Example:
>>>>> +     tmons {
>>>>> +             compatible = "simple-bus";
>>>>> +             #address-cells = <1>;
>>>>> +             #size-cells = <1>;
>>>>> +             ranges;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +             tmon_ihost0: thermal@8f100000 {
>>>>> +                     compatible = "brcm,sr-thermal";
>>>>> +                     reg = <0x8f100000 0x4>;
>>>>> +             };
>>>>
>>>> Convince me that you need a node per register. This can all be
>>>> accomplished with a single node and either a single reg entry or a
>>>> series of reg entries.
>>>>
>>> In our system we have 6 different thermal zones. each node belongs to
>>> one thermal zone.
>>> thermal driver detects each node as separate thermal zone and monitors
>>> separately.
>>> register entry is only 4byte memory which contains the temperature
>>> value of respective thermal zone.
>>> Based on requirement we can increase or decrease the number thermal
>>> zones need to monitor.
>>
>> Still, all this can be accomplished with a single node. Having a node
>> per register in DT doesn't scale.
> Our approach is like we have individual controllers have one driver
> with multiple DT nodes.
> In coming future we will add more thermal zones based on our
> requirement. then we can just
> add new DT node, instead of having driver changes.
> With this approach we can configure each thermal zone at different trip values.
> So we must have all thermal zones are independent.
>>
>> Rob