Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756544AbbHZPjK (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:39:10 -0400 Received: from down.free-electrons.com ([37.187.137.238]:49620 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756289AbbHZPjH (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:39:07 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:39:03 +0200 From: Boris Brezillon To: Bill Pringlemeir Cc: Brian Norris , Stefan Agner , dwmw2@infradead.org, sebastian@breakpoint.cc, robh+dt@kernel.org, pawel.moll@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com, ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, galak@codeaurora.org, shawn.guo@linaro.org, kernel@pengutronix.de, marb@ixxat.de, aaron@tastycactus.com, bpringlemeir@gmail.com, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, albert.aribaud@3adev.fr, klimov.linux@gmail.com, Bill Pringlemeir Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 3/5] mtd: nand: vf610_nfc: add device tree bindings Message-ID: <20150826173903.25479201@bbrezillon> In-Reply-To: References: <1438594050-4595-1-git-send-email-stefan@agner.ch> <1438594050-4595-4-git-send-email-stefan@agner.ch> <20150825202546.GL81844@google.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3811 Lines: 90 Hi Bill, On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:26:36 -0400 Bill Pringlemeir wrote: > On 25 Aug 2015, computersforpeace@gmail.com wrote: > > > Sorry, I realized a potential issue here. > > > On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 11:27:28AM +0200, Stefan Agner wrote: > >> Signed-off-by: Bill Pringlemeir > >> Acked-by: Shawn Guo > >> Reviewed-by: Brian Norris > >> Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner > >> --- > >> .../devicetree/bindings/mtd/vf610-nfc.txt | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++ > >> 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+) create mode 100644 > >> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/vf610-nfc.txt > > >> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/vf610-nfc.txt > >> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/vf610-nfc.txt > >> new file mode 100644 > >> index 0000000..cae5f25 > >> --- /dev/null > >> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/vf610-nfc.txt > >>>> -0,0 +1,45 @@ > >> +- nand-bus-width: see nand.txt > >> +- nand-ecc-mode: see nand.txt > >> +- nand-on-flash-bbt: see nand.txt > > > Stumbling across the "multi-CS" questions on the driver reminds me: it > > typically makes sense to define new NAND bindings using separate NAND > > *controller* and *flash* device nodes. The above 3 properties, at > > least, would apply on a per-flash basis, not per-controller > > typically. See sunxi-nand, for instance: > > > http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/sunxi-nand.txt > > > brcmnand had a similar pattern: > > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/brcm,brcmnand.txt > > > (Perhaps it's time we standardized this a little more formally...) > > These would apply per chip, but the controller has to be configured to > support each and every one. Every time an operation was performed, we > would have to check the chip type and reconfigure the controller. > Currently, the driver does not support this and it would add a lot of > overhead in some cases unless a register cache was used. > > Is the flexibility of using a system with combined 8/16bit devices > really worth all the overhead? Isn't it sort of brain dead hardware not > to make all of the chips similar? Why would everyone have to pay for > such a crazy setup? > > To separate it would at least be a lie versus the code in the current > form. As well, there are only a few SOC which support multiple chip > selects. The 'multi-CS' register bits of this controller varies between > PowerPC, 68K/Coldfire and ARM platforms. > > I looked briefly at the brcmnand.c and it seems that it is not > supporting different ECC per chip even though the nodes are broken out > this way. In fact, if some raw functions are called, I think it will > put it in ECC mode even if it wasn't before? Well, I agree that this > would be good generically, I think it puts a lot of effort in the > drivers for not so much payoff? Hm, the sunxi driver supports it, and it does not add such a big overhead... The only thing you have to do is cache a bunch of register values per-chip and restore/apply them when the chip is selected (in your ->select_chip() implementation). Anyway, even if the suggested DT representation is a lie in regards to your implementation, it's actually pretty accurate from an hardware POV, and this is exactly what DT is supposed to represent. Best Regards, Boris -- Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com -- 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/