Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932659AbbLCJCj (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2015 04:02:39 -0500 Received: from devils.ext.ti.com ([198.47.26.153]:50869 "EHLO devils.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932201AbbLCJCd (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2015 04:02:33 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/27] memory: omap-gpmc: mtd: nand: Support GPMC NAND on non-OMAP platforms To: Brian Norris , References: <1442588029-13769-1-git-send-email-rogerq@ti.com> <20151203050905.GE120110@google.com> <565FDC4E.4000200@ti.com> <20151203062206.GB16368@brian-ubuntu> CC: , , , , , , , , From: Roger Quadros Message-ID: <566004F1.2040806@ti.com> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 14:31:37 +0530 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20151203062206.GB16368@brian-ubuntu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 4687 Lines: 115 On 03/12/15 11:52, Brian Norris wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 11:38:14AM +0530, Roger Quadros wrote: >> On 03/12/15 10:39, Brian Norris wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 05:53:22PM +0300, Roger Quadros wrote: >>>> We do a couple of things in this series which result in >>>> cleaner device tree implementation, faster perfomance and >>>> multi-platform support. As an added bonus we get new GPI/Interrupt pins >>>> for use in the system. >>>> >>>> - Establish a custom interface between NAND and GPMC driver. This is >>>> needed because all of the NAND registers sit in the GPMC register space. >>>> Some bits like NAND IRQ are even shared with GPMC. >>>> >>>> - Remove NAND IRQ handling from omap-gpmc driver, share the GPMC IRQ >>>> with the omap2-nand driver and handle NAND IRQ events in the NAND driver. >>>> This causes performance increase when using prefetch-irq mode. >>>> 30% increase in read, 17% increase in write in prefetch-irq mode. >>>> >>>> - Clean up device tree support so that omap-gpmc IP and the omap2 NAND >>>> driver can be used on non-OMAP platforms. e.g. Keystone. >>>> >>>> - Implement GPIOCHIP + IRQCHIP for the GPMC WAITPINS. SoCs can contain >>>> 2 to 4 of these and most of them would be unused otherwise. It also >>>> allows a cleaner implementation of NAND Ready pin status for the NAND driver. >>>> >>>> - Implement GPIOlib based NAND ready pin checking for OMAP NAND driver. >>>> >>>> This series is available at >>>> git@github.com:rogerq/linux.git >>>> in branch >>>> for-v4.4/gpmc-v3 >>>> >>>> cheers, >>>> -roger >>>> >>>> Changelog: >>>> v3: >>>> -Fixed and tested NAND using legacy boot on omap3-beagle. >>>> -Support rising and falling edge interrupts on WAITpins. >>>> -Update DT node of all gpmc users. >>> >>> The MTD stuff looks mostly good to me know. I've made all my comments >>> for now, but I'm not sure how you're going to end up rebasing/splitting >>> and what you're going to do with the irqchip removal, so I'll refrain >>> from ack's for now. Hopefully I can either ack or merge v4. >> >> I'll retain the irqchip model for now and send a v4 with all comments >> addressed and better subsystem wise patch split. >> >>> >>> I brought it up on one other patch, but it's not really clear to me what >>> the split is on board file vs. device tree handling, since you seem to >>> have a combination of both (i.e., platform data that passes along device >>> nodes). What's the plan on that? >> >> Platform data no longer passes device nodes. We're either true device tree >> or plain legacy. The deprecated fields are no longer used once the series is >> applied. > > Well, they're still sorta used (you assign info->of_node = > pdata->of_node, for instance). As dicussed in the other thread, I think > we can avoid the deprecation part and just kill the fields though, and > that would make things clearer. > >>> And of course, there's the question of how exactly to merge this, given >>> the: >>> (1) conflicts already existing in the MTD dev tree >> >> I'll rebase the series on top of MTD dev tree. > > OK. FWIW, we so far only need to base them on commit a61ae81a1907 ("mtd: > nand: drop unnecessary partition parser data"). Maybe when queueing up a > branch, that'd be the best starting point for Tony, so he doesn't need > to have all of MTD's stuff in his tree too? I can set up a signed tag or > something, if that would be helpful. > > But for sending patches, the latest l2-mtd.git is fine too. > >>> (2) this touches several trees, often in the same patch and >> >> I'll try my best to split the patches but not sure if this could be 100% >> clean split without functional breakage. >> >>> (3) even if the patches were split out a little better into MTD and >>> non-MTD stuff, I think there would still be dependencies such that >>> we'd need at least 1 (probably 2) cross merges to get it all >>> straight >> >> That is correct. >> Is it OK if functionality breaks if for example only MTD changes are considered? > > I think I may have misunderstood the branch proposal. If Tony queues up: > > l2-mtd.git (or just up to commit a61ae81a1907) > + > your patches > > and I pull that back into l2-mtd.git as well, then we don't need to > worry about patches that touch multiple "trees". Just do whatever makes > things clearest, including disregarding some of my comments along the > line of (3). Tony, Are you fine with this? cheers, -roger -- 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/