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Date:   Thu, 29 Oct 2020 09:38:16 +0100
From:   Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>
To:     Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] mtd: rawnand: qcom: Add support for QSPI nand
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On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 08:53:44 +0100
Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> mdalam@codeaurora.org wrote on Wed, 28 Oct 2020 23:54:23 +0530:
> 
> > On 2020-10-28 15:18, Miquel Raynal wrote:  
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Md Sadre Alam <mdalam@codeaurora.org> wrote on Sat, 10 Oct 2020
> > > 11:01:37 +0530:
> > >     
> > >> QPIC 2.0 supports Serial NAND support in addition to all features and
> > >> commands in QPIC 1.0 for parallel NAND. Parallel and Serial NAND >> cannot
> > >> operate simultaneously. QSPI nand devices will connect to QPIC >> IO_MACRO
> > >> block of QPIC controller. There is a separate IO_MACRO clock for >> IO_MACRO
> > >> block. Default IO_MACRO block divide the input clock by 4. so if >> IO_MACRO
> > >> input clock is 320MHz then on bus it will be 80MHz, so QSPI nand >> device
> > >> should also support this frequency.    
> > >> >> QPIC provides 4 data pins to QSPI nand. In standard SPI mode (x1 mode) >> data    
> > >> transfer will occur on only 2 pins one pin for Serial data in and one >> for
> > >> serial data out. In QUAD SPI mode (x4 mode) data transfer will occur >> at all
> > >> the four data lines. QPIC controller supports command for x1 mode and >> x4 mode.    
> > >> >> Md Sadre Alam (5):    
> > >>   dt-bindings: qcom_nandc: IPQ5018 QPIC NAND documentation
> > >>   mtd: rawnand: qcom: Add initial support for qspi nand
> > >>   mtd: rawnand: qcom: Read QPIC version
> > >>   mtd: rawnand: qcom: Enable support for erase,read & write for serial
> > >>     nand.
> > >>   mtd: rawnand: qcom: Add support for serial training.    
> > >> >>  .../devicetree/bindings/mtd/qcom_nandc.txt         |   3 +    
> > >>  drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_ids.c                    |  13 +
> > >>  drivers/mtd/nand/raw/qcom_nandc.c                  | 502 >> ++++++++++++++++++++-
> > >>  3 files changed, 494 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)    
> > >> > > I'm sorry but this series clearly breaks the current layering. I cannot    
> > > authorize SPI-NAND code to fall into the raw NAND subsystem.
> > >     
> > 
> > I am agree with you, we should not add SPI-NAND changes inside
> > raw NAND subsystem.
> >   
> > > As both typologies cannot be used at the same time, I guess you should
> > > have another driver handling this feature under the spi/ subsystem +
> > > a few declarations in the SPI-NAND devices list.
> > >     
> > 
> > Initially I was started writing separate driver under SPI-NAND subsystem then I
> > realized that more than 85% of raw/qcom_nand.c code getting duplicated.
> > 
> > That's why I have added this SPI-NAND change in raw/qcom_nand.c since
> > more than 85% of code will be reused.
> > 
> > If I will add this change inside SPI-NAND subsystem then much of
> > raw/qcom_nand.c code will get duplicated. Would it be ok ?  
> 
> What about moving the generic code to drivers/mtd/nand/common/ and

Yeah, I don't think drivers/mtd/nand/common/ is the right place to put
this common code TBH, and I don't really see what's to be shared between
the NAND controller and SPI controller drivers. If it's just helpers to
access the registers, those can probably live in
drivers/soc/qcom/qcom_qpic2.c.

> referring to it from drivers/mtd/nand/raw/qcom_nand.c and
> drivers/spi/spi-qcom.c (or such)?
> 
> Thanks,
> Miquèl
> 
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