[PATCH 3/7] mtd: nand: automate NAND timings selection

[Sascha Hauer]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 05:59:17PM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 16:59:51 +0200
> Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 16:36:15 +0200
> > Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > Ok, I think now we are understanding each other. So I keep two timing
> > > instances in struct nand_chip, one for initialization and one optimized
> > > timing. They both get initialized once during chip detection and can be
> > > reused when needed.  
> > 
> > Hm, not sure we need to keep 2 instances around, all we need to save is
> > the 'best_onfi_timing_mode', or we can just update
> > ->default_onfi_timing_mode based on the result of the timing mode  
> > detection, so that, when nand_setup_data_interface() is called, all we
> > have to do is:
> > 
> > 	conf = chip->data_iface_conf;
> > 	conf->type = NAND_SDR_IFACE,
> > 	conf->timings.sdr = *onfi_async_timing_mode_to_sdr_timings(chip->default_onfi_timing_mode);
> > 	chip->setup_data_interface(mtd, conf, false);
> > 
> 
> After the discussion we had on IRC, I want to reconsider what I said.
> How about having a global nand_default_data_iface_config that would
> work will all chips (probably exposing mode 0 timings and an SDR
> interface).
> This one will be used even for DDR NANDs, because after a reset they
> return back to SDR mode, timing mode 0.
> 
> Now, I keep thinking that other timing modes should not be directly
> exposed.

sounds good. How do you think the default iface_config should be
exposed? Should I turn the onfi_sdr_timings array to struct
nand_data_interface like done before and add a accessor function for the
first element, something like:

const struct nand_data_interface *nand_default_data_interface(void);

Sascha

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