[PATCH net-next 02/12] clk: sunxi-ng: r40: export a regmap to access the GMAC register

[Maxime Ripard]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 11:48:45AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 03:15:02PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 5:31 AM, Maxime Ripard
> > <maxime.ripard at bootlin.com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 05:28:47PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> > >> From: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy at aosc.io>
> > >>
> > >> There's a GMAC configuration register, which exists on A64/A83T/H3/H5 in
> > >> the syscon part, in the CCU of R40 SoC.
> > >>
> > >> Export a regmap of the CCU.
> > >>
> > >> Read access is not restricted to all registers, but only the GMAC
> > >> register is allowed to be written.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy at aosc.io>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens at csie.org>
> > >
> > > Gah, this is crazy. I'm really starting to regret letting that syscon
> > > in in the first place...
> > 
> > IMHO syscon is really a better fit. It's part of the glue layer and
> > most other dwmac user platforms treat it as such and use a syscon.
> > Plus the controls encompass delays (phase), inverters (polarity),
> > and even signal routing. It's not really just a group of clock controls,
> > like what we poorly modeled for A20/A31. I think that was really a
> > mistake.
> > 
> > As I mentioned in the cover letter, a slightly saner approach would
> > be to let drivers add custom syscon entries, which would then require
> > less custom plumbing.
> 
> A syscon is convenient, sure, but it also bypasses any abstraction
> layer we have everywhere else, which means that we'll have to maintain
> the register layout in each and every driver that uses it.
> 
> So far, it's only be the GMAC, but it can also be others (the SRAM
> controller comes to my mind), and then, if there's any difference in
> the design in a future SoC, we'll have to maintain that in the GMAC
> driver as well.

I guess I forgot to say something, I'm fine with using a syscon we
already have.

I'm just questionning if merging any other driver using one is the
right move.

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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