Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752087AbbEGSvk (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2015 14:51:40 -0400 Received: from mail-gw3-out.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.64]:44023 "EHLO mail-gw3-out.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751372AbbEGSvg (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2015 14:51:36 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,384,1427785200"; d="scan'208";a="64089698" Message-ID: <554BB429.7090009@broadcom.com> Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 11:51:21 -0700 From: Florian Fainelli User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnd Bergmann , Brian Norris CC: , Dmitry Torokhov , Anatol Pomazao , Ray Jui , "Corneliu Doban" , Jonathan Richardson , Scott Branden , Florian Fainelli , =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= , , Dan Ehrenberg , Gregory Fong , , , Kevin Cernekee Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 06/10] mtd: brcmstb_nand: add SoC-specific support References: <1430935194-7579-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> <7101952.uOJDgn7tgf@wuerfel> <20150506204910.GJ32500@ld-irv-0074> <20781942.cIPodTiNzG@wuerfel> In-Reply-To: <20781942.cIPodTiNzG@wuerfel> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3483 Lines: 74 On 07/05/15 03:01, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 06 May 2015 13:49:10 Brian Norris wrote: >> On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 09:12:43PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> On Wednesday 06 May 2015 10:59:50 Brian Norris wrote: >>>> + /* >>>> + * Some SoCs integrate this controller (e.g., its interrupt bits) in >>>> + * interesting ways >>>> + */ >>>> + if (of_property_read_bool(dn, "brcm,nand-soc")) { >>>> + struct device_node *soc_dn; >>>> + >>>> + soc_dn = of_parse_phandle(dn, "brcm,nand-soc", 0); >>>> + if (!soc_dn) >>>> + return -ENODEV; >>>> + >>>> + ctrl->soc = devm_brcmnand_probe_soc(dev, soc_dn); >>>> + if (!ctrl->soc) { >>>> + dev_err(dev, "could not probe SoC data\n"); >>>> + of_node_put(soc_dn); >>>> + return -ENODEV; >>>> + } >>>> + >>>> + ret = devm_request_irq(dev, ctrl->irq, brcmnand_irq, 0, >>>> + DRV_NAME, ctrl); >>>> + >>>> + /* Enable interrupt */ >>>> + ctrl->soc->ctlrdy_set_enabled(ctrl->soc, true); >>>> + >>>> + of_node_put(soc_dn); >>>> + } else { >>>> + /* Use standard interrupt infrastructure */ >>>> + ret = devm_request_irq(dev, ctrl->irq, brcmnand_ctlrdy_irq, 0, >>>> + DRV_NAME, ctrl); >>>> + } >>>> >>> >>> It looks to me like this should be handled as a nested irqchip, so the node >>> you look up gets used as the "interrupt-parent" instead, making the behavior >>> of this SoC transparent to the nand driver. >> >> You snipped the rest of the patch, which involves more than just IRQ >> handling. The same registers touch both interrupts and data bus endian >> configuration, so it can't possibly be done transparently to the NAND >> driver. > > Anything else in there? The bus configuration would just involve writing > a constant value in some register, right? Doing that in the irqchip > is also a bit ugly, but may still be better overall than doing it the > way you have above. IMHO this is uglier, having a pseudo interrupt controller driver that also takes care of preparing bus transfers, as opposed to an ad-hoc piece of code that does not pretend to be an interrupt controller at all sounds like the former is lying about what it is, while the latter is pretty straight forward even though it may duplicate an existing subsystem. I would definitively see some value in writing an irqchip driver if this was remotely useful outside of the NAND block, e.g: the interrupt bits would serve other peripherals than NAND, which is not the case for 63138 and 338x AFAICT, Cygnus is a special case. I could very well imagine a near future where this controller gets added more features in the DMA/data-path that may require bus/chip-level glue code to be interfaced properly between Broadcom's different internal buses. In which case, the interrupt controller portion of the code could be much smaller than the bus/data-path logic, would it still make sense to pretend this to be an interrupt controller? -- Florian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/