Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Dec 2021 17:54:43 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] spi: apple: Add driver for Apple SPI controller |
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On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 02:10:26AM +0900, Hector Martin wrote: > On 14/12/2021 00.56, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 12:50:49PM +0900, Hector Martin wrote:
> > > > Some brackets or an intermediate variable wouldn't hurt here, especially > > > > given the line length.
> > > How about this?
> > > return (200000 * t->bits_per_word * APPLE_SPI_FIFO_DEPTH / 2) <= t->speed_hz;
> > That's better but it's still a very long line which is half the issue.
> I think it's quite readable at this point (especially with the comment above > explaining it anyway). Note that these days a lot of people consider lines > up to 100 chars okay in the kernel, and checkpatch uses that limit. Do you > have a specific change in mind?
The 100 characters is a "don't send silly checkpatch fixes" thing not a target to aim for (see also the ternery operator stuff). Like I said an intermediate variable wouldn't hurt, for example for the FIFO trigger level into a fifo_trigger variable.
> > There's currently a bit of a fashion for people with very old SPI blocks > > to make incompatible new versions recently, a lot of it seems to be > > driven by things like flash engine support. Sometimes these things end > > up getting instantiated together as they have different purposes and the > > incompatibilties make the IPs larger.
> I think if they haven't changed it by now they probably won't; e.g. they > tacked on DMA using a coprocessor instead of changing the block itself. I > don't think Apple uses SPI for anything performance-critical. They don't > even bother with QSPI for the NOR flash (which is mostly only used for > bootloaders and variable storage).
This feels like tempting fate but I guess...
> > Have you done a contrast and compare with the Samsung driver? Given > > both this and your comments above about this dating back to the original > > iPhone...
> You mean the *two* Samsung drivers? :-)
> It seems Samsung like to keep making up incompatible SPI blocks. This one > shares a *few* bits in a *couple* registers with spi-s3c24xx driver, which > point to a common lineage, but those registers aren't even at the same > addresses. Not enough in common for it to make sense to try to use one > driver for both (unlike with UART, where it was close enough to be added as > a new Samsung UART variant, or I2C, where we could refactor the pasemi > driver to add a platform backend alongside the existing PCI support and > mostly use it as-is).
Their older SPI block has quite a few issues IIRC, I think DMA was the big difference between the two but ICBW. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |