[PATCH v2 06/10] soc: Add SoC specific driver support for nuc900

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Tue Jul 12 02:50:28 PDT 2016


On Tuesday, July 12, 2016 5:06:10 PM CEST Wan Zongshun wrote:
> On 2016年07月11日 16:03, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Sunday, July 10, 2016 3:27:26 PM CEST Wan Zongshun wrote:
> > I'm still a bit unsure about the set of attributes here.
> >
> > - The "soc_id" is read from the device tree from the field that contains
> >    the board name, I think for consistency you should try to map the
> >    GCR_CHIPID to the name of the SoC and assign that here
> >
> > - The "machine" is hardcoded to "NUC900EVB", which in turn looks like
> >    a particular board but not the one you are running on. Maybe read
> >    that from the DT instead?
> >
> > - The "revision" is not filled at all, I would suggest using something
> >    derived from the GCR_CHIPID register here
> >
> > - you have two nonstandard attributes "chipid" and "version", which
> >    I'd hope to avoid -- the set of standard attributes is supposed to
> >    give enough information about the machine, and platform independent
> >    user space will never read those.
> 
> So, Maybe I can remove those two codes, no need push those information 
> to user space?
> 
> device_create_file(soc_device_to_device(soc_dev), &nuc900_chipid_attr);
> device_create_file(soc_device_to_device(soc_dev), &nuc900_version_attr);
> 

Yes, that would be good.

	Arnd



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