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SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/12] mtd: nand: davinci: store the core chipselect number in platform data
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On Wednesday 02 May 2018 04:15 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> 2018-05-01 12:29 GMT+02:00 Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>:
>> On Tuesday 01 May 2018 03:23 PM, Sekhar Nori wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 01 May 2018 02:55 PM, Sekhar Nori wrote:
>>>> On Monday 30 April 2018 01:54 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>>>>> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> We have the 'ti,davinci-chipselect' property in the device tree, but
>>>>> when using platform data the driver silently uses the id field of
>>>>> struct platform_device as the chipselect. This is confusing and we
>>>>> almost broke the nand support again recently after converting the
>>>>> platform to common clock framework (which changed the device id in the
>>>>> clock lookup - the problem is gone now that we no longer acquire the
>>>>> clock in the nand driver.
>>>>>
>>>>> This patch adds a new filed - core_chipsel - to the platform_data.
>>>>
>>>> s/filed/field
>>>>
>>>>> Subsequent patches will convert the platforms to using this new field.
>>>>
>>>> Can you add a comment for this new field too, like how we have for most
>>>> other fields?
>>>>
>>>> Curious on what 'core' in core_chipsel means. Something to do with
>>>> chip-select offset we have on DA850?
>>>
>>> Looks like you may have just picked the terminology from DaVinci NAND
>>> driver (introduced back in 2009). But in this context, it means the
>>> 0-indexed chip-select number that of the asynchronous memory interface
>>> to which the NAND device is connected.
>>>
>>> So, may be a comment here will suffice.
>>
>> This is what I committed:
>>
>
> I don't see it in your tree yet.

I pushed it out now. Wanted to do some basic testing.

>
>> --8<--
>> commit 533d93703fa717fdf74c4fb711c868c4fdc8b475 (HEAD -> refs/heads/v4.18/nand-cs-simplification)
>> Author: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
>> AuthorDate: Mon Apr 30 10:24:42 2018 +0200
>> Commit: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>
>> CommitDate: Tue May 1 15:57:47 2018 +0530
>>
>> mtd: nand: davinci: store the core chipselect number in platform data
>>
>> We have the 'ti,davinci-chipselect' property in the device tree, but
>> when using platform data the driver silently uses the id field of
>> struct platform_device as the chipselect. This is confusing and we
>> almost broke the nand support again recently after converting the
>> platform to common clock framework (which changed the device id in the
>> clock lookup - the problem is gone now that we no longer acquire the
>> clock in the nand driver.
>>
>> This patch adds a new field - core_chipsel - to the platform_data.
>> Subsequent patches will convert the platforms to using this new field.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/platform_data/mtd-davinci.h b/include/linux/platform_data/mtd-davinci.h
>> index f1a2cf655bdb..1bbfa27cccb4 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/platform_data/mtd-davinci.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/platform_data/mtd-davinci.h
>> @@ -56,6 +56,16 @@ struct davinci_nand_pdata { /* platform_data */
>> uint32_t mask_ale;
>> uint32_t mask_cle;
>>
>> + /*
>> + * 0-indexed chip-select number of the asynchronous
>> + * interface to which the NAND device has been connected.
>> + *
>> + * So, if you have NAND connected to CS3 of DA850, you
>> + * will pass '1' here. Since the asynchronous interface
>> + * on DA850 starts from CS2.
>> + */
>
> Maybe we should add that on all other DaVinci SoCs the async interface
> starts from CS0?

I just intended it to be an example (and chose the more confusing one).
I had already created the tree, not just pushed it out, so I went with
what I already have.

Thanks,
Sekhar

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