From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751587AbeBZRQ0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Feb 2018 12:16:26 -0500 Received: from mail-it0-f43.google.com ([209.85.214.43]:38178 "EHLO mail-it0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751448AbeBZRQY (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Feb 2018 12:16:24 -0500 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AG47ELtfHHbOXvYsw0b11ni8htokVtwuY9wh2tGANaezUpBdf81TW7W10htpe9qtn0DYuMowrqTJWKzhPXQRvZAivCw= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20180222191647.4727-1-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> <20180222191647.4727-3-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> From: Ard Biesheuvel Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 17:16:22 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] i2c: add support for Socionext SynQuacer I2C controller To: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Wolfram Sang , Rob Herring , Mark Rutland , linux-i2c , devicetree , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arm Mailing List , Jassi Brar Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.home.local id w1QHGViF029167 On 26 February 2018 at 17:05, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 4:58 PM, Ard Biesheuvel > wrote: >> On 26 February 2018 at 11:35, Andy Shevchenko wrote: >>> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 11:59 AM, Ard Biesheuvel >>> wrote: >>>> On 23 February 2018 at 13:12, Andy Shevchenko wrote: >>>>> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 2:40 PM, Ard Biesheuvel >>>>> wrote: > >>>>> Replace 'baudclk' with 'pclk' and p->uartclk with i2c->clkrate in >>>>> above and you are almost done. > >>>> I don't think this is better. >>> >>> It's a pattern over ACPI vs. clk cases at least for now. >>> But hold on. We have already an example of dealing with ACPI / >>> non-ACPI cases for I2C controllers — i2c-designware-platdrv.c. >>> Check how it's done there. >>> >>> I actually totally forgot about ACPI slaves described in the table. We >>> need to take into account the ones with lowest bus speed. >>> >> >> Wow, that code is absolutely terrible. > > To some degree I may say yes it is. > >> So even while _DSD device properties require vendor prefixes, which >> are lacking in this case, > > What kind? clock-frequency? Does it require prefix? > What I remember from the _DSD discussions is that we should vendor prefixes for per-device properties, and only use unprefixed names for generic properties. However, looking more closely, I understand that this undermines the idea of having parity between DT and ACPI, because DT did not require vendor prefixes in the past (but it does now) I guess 'clock-frequency' is one that would not require such a vendor prefix. >> and the fact that the ACPI flavor of the >> Designware I2C controller now provides two different ways to get the >> timing parameters (using device properties or using SSCN/FMCN/etc ACPI >> methods), you think this is a shining example of how this should be >> implemented? > > No, those methods because of windows driver and existed ACPI tables at > that time. > You are not supposed to uglify your case. > OK, in that case, can you please spell out what you think is mandatory? Because handwavy references to existing UART and I2C drivers are not helping me here. >> Also, I still think implementing a clock device using rate X just to >> interrogate it for its rate (returning X) is absolutely pointless. > > OTOH the deviation in the driver is what I absolutely against of. > Driver must not know the resource provider (ideally at all). > There is no 'resource provider'. There is only a single number, which is the clock rate, and is only used to calculate some internal dividers of the I2C IP block. >> So what I can do is invent an ACPI method that returns the PCLK rate. >> Would that work for you? > > Again, looking into existing examples (UART, I2C, etc) we better to > create a generic helper in clock framework that would provide us a > clock based on property value. > But doing different paths for different resource providers is not what > we are looking for. > > P.S. To move this somehow forward I may propose to submit an OF > driver, and discuss ACPI part after. > Thanks, but that does not really work for me. What I can do is split it into an initial DT only driver, and a followup ACPI patch. Can you point me to an example of such a clock provider?