From: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
To: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@baylibre.com>,
Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>
Cc: "open list:ARM/Amlogic Meson..."
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Jianxin Pan <jianxin.pan@amlogic.com>,
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Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] Amlogic 32-bit Meson SoC SDHC MMC controller driver
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 20:35:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPDyKFrYNmCtX3KHaE1vw4rT45WdsUWKqOaJ43rJCKwsnY4PCQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1j8sig3mi3.fsf@starbuckisacylon.baylibre.com>
Jerome, Martin,
On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 at 18:46, Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@baylibre.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon 27 Apr 2020 at 18:23, Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Jerome,
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:56 AM Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@baylibre.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> >> > Changes since v3 at [3]:
> >> > - split the clock bits into a separate clock controller driver because
> >> > of two reasons: 1) it keeps the MMC controller driver mostly clean of
> >> > the clock bits
> >>
> >> If the register is in the MMC controller register space and the MMC
> >> driver is the driver using these clocks, it is where the clocks belong.
> >> I don't get why it could be an issue ?
> >>
> >> Is the clock block is shared with another device, like on the Gx family ?
> > no, it is not shared with another device (to my knowledge).
> >
> >> > 2) the pure clock controller can use
> >> > devm_clk_hw_register() (instead of devm_clk_register(), which is
> >> > deprecated) and the MMC controller can act as a pure clock consumer.
> >>
> >> Why can't you use devm_clk_hw_register in an MMC driver ?
> >> Unless I missed something, it is provided by clk-provider.h, which can be
> >> included by any driver.
> > indeed, I could use devm_clk_hw_register in the MMC driver.
> > Ulfs concern was that a lot of code was needed for managing the clocks
> > and I agree with him. so this is my way of keeping those details away
> > from the MMC driver and have two separate drivers which are better to
> > understand overall.
>
> Martin, Ulf,
>
> I understand that CCF code might seems verbose and I'm happy to help
> review it if necessary but I don't think every driver out there should
> register some kind of fake clock controller driver everytime they wish
> to use CCF API.
>
> Yes the it might make the driver code cleaner but the overall
> architecture is harder to follow.
>
> CCF was made so driver from any subsystem *may* use it. Creating a
> controller for a single register is overkill. The HW architecture of
> this particular device does not justify it.
I fully understand your point and I agree with it.
If I recall correctly, my point in the earlier review phase was that I
wanted the driver to be nicely split into a clock provider part and
into a mmc host driver part. I also raised the point of using
devm_clk_hw_register() rather than the deprecated devm_clk_register().
I still think this makes sense.
That said, perhaps a reasonable split could be to have two separate
c-files (one for clock provider and one for mmc host), but both in the
mmc subsystem.
Kind regards
Uffe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-27 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-28 0:32 [PATCH v5 0/3] Amlogic 32-bit Meson SoC SDHC MMC controller driver Martin Blumenstingl
2020-03-28 0:32 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] dt-bindings: mmc: Document the Amlogic Meson SDHC MMC host controller Martin Blumenstingl
2020-03-30 16:28 ` Rob Herring
2020-03-28 0:32 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] clk: meson: add a driver for the Meson8/8b/8m2 SDHC clock controller Martin Blumenstingl
2020-04-27 8:41 ` Jerome Brunet
2020-04-27 16:33 ` Martin Blumenstingl
2020-04-27 16:58 ` Jerome Brunet
2020-03-28 0:32 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] mmc: host: meson-mx-sdhc: new driver for the Amlogic Meson SDHC host Martin Blumenstingl
2020-04-22 18:17 ` Anand Moon
2020-04-27 19:19 ` Ulf Hansson
2020-04-27 19:44 ` Martin Blumenstingl
2020-04-25 20:26 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] Amlogic 32-bit Meson SoC SDHC MMC controller driver Martin Blumenstingl
2020-04-27 6:58 ` Ulf Hansson
2020-04-27 8:56 ` Jerome Brunet
2020-04-27 16:23 ` Martin Blumenstingl
2020-04-27 16:46 ` Jerome Brunet
2020-04-27 18:35 ` Ulf Hansson [this message]
2020-04-27 19:31 ` Martin Blumenstingl
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