[PATCH 1/5] soc: mediatek: Add SMI driver

Yong Wu yong.wu at mediatek.com
Mon Mar 9 04:57:51 PDT 2015


Dear Paul,
      Thanks very much for your suggestion.

On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 12:30 +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 18:48 +0800, yong.wu at mediatek.com wrote:
> > --- a/drivers/soc/mediatek/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/soc/mediatek/Kconfig
> > @@ -20,3 +20,10 @@ config MT8173_PMIC_WRAP
> >  	  PMIC wrapper is a proprietary hardware in MT8173 to make
> >  	  communication protocols to access PMIC device.
> >  	  This driver implement access protocols for MT8173.
> > +
> > +config MTK_SMI
> > +        bool
> 
> Nit: make this one tab instead of 8 spaces, please.
> 
> > +	help
> > +	  Smi help enable/disable iommu in mt8173 and control the
> > +	  clock of each local arbiter.
> > +	  It should be true while MTK_IOMMU enable.
> 
> I don't think anyone using the *config tools will ever see this text, as
> there's no prompt. So you might as well make this a comment or drop it
> altogether.
> 
     We could search it in the tool even though we don't see it. In next
version, I will try to make it a comment.
> Is this selected by more than just MTK_IOMMU (see 2/5)? If not, I think
> MTK_SMI will be set and unset in lockstep with MTK_IOMMU. In other
> words, you could as well use one Kconfig symbol.
> 
> Thanks,
    if we disable MTK_IOMMU, the MTK_SMI also should be selected.That is because 
if the multimedia h/w want to work, the clock of the local arbiters always should be opened.
> 
> Paul Bolle
> 





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