[PATCH v1 03/11] drivers: soc: hisi: Add support for Hisilicon Djtag driver

[John Garry]

On 07/11/2016 20:08, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday, November 7, 2016 2:15:10 PM CET John Garry wrote:
>>
>> Hi Arnd,
>>
>> The new bus type tries to model the djtag in a similar way to I2C/USB
>> driver arch, where we have a host bus adapter and child devices attached
>> to the bus. The child devices are bus driver devices and have bus
>> addresses. We think of the djtag as a separate bus, so we are modelling
>> it as such.
>>
>> The bus driver offers a simple host interface for clients to read/write
>> to the djtag bus: bus accesses are hidden from the client, the host
>> drives the bus.
>
> Ok, in that case we should probably start out by having a bus specific
> DT binding, and separating the description from that of the bus master
> device.

OK

>
> I'd suggest requiring #address-cells=<1> and #size-cells=<0> in the master
> node, and listing the children by reg property. If the address is not
> easily expressed as a single integer, use a larger #address-cells value.

We already have something equivalent to reg in "module-id" (see patch 
02/11), which is the slave device bus address; here's a sample:
+		/* For L3 cache PMU */
+		pmul3c0 {
+			compatible = "hisilicon,hisi-pmu-l3c-v1";
+			scl-id = <0x02>;
+			num-events = <0x16>;
+			num-counters = <0x08>;
+			module-id = <0x04>;
+			num-banks = <0x04>;
+			cfgen-map = <0x02 0x04 0x01 0x08>;
+			counter-reg = <0x170>;
+			evctrl-reg = <0x04>;
+			event-en = <0x1000000>;
+			evtype-reg = <0x140>;
+		};

FYI, "module-id" is our own internal hw nomenclature.

>
> Another option that we have previously used was to actually pretend that
> a vendor specific bus is an i2c bus and use the i2c probing infrastructure,
> but that only makes sense if the software side closely resembles i2c
> (this was the case for Allwinner I think, but I have not looked at
> your driver in enough detail to know if it is true here as well).
>

OK, let me check this. By chance do you remember the specific AllWinner 
driver/hw?

Cheers,
John

> 	Arnd
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