linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 08/16] mmc: sdhci-omap: Add support to override f

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Date:   Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:38:51 +0530
From:   Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>
To:     Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
CC:     Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        "linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org>,
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-omap <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/16] mmc: sdhci-omap: Add support to override f_max
 and iodelay from pdata

Hi,

On Wednesday 14 February 2018 10:54 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org> [180214 09:53]:
>> On 5 February 2018 at 13:50, Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com> wrote:
>>> DRA74x EVM Rev H EVM comes with revision 2.0 silicon. However, earlier
>>> versions of EVM can come with either revision 1.1 or revision 1.0 of
>>> silicon.
>>>
>>> The device-tree file is written to support rev 2.0 of silicon.
>>> pdata-quirks are used to then override the settings needed for
>>> PG 1.1 silicon.
>>>
>>> PG 1.1 silicon has limitations w.r.t frequencies at which MMC1/2/3
>>> can operate as well as different IOdelay numbers.
>>
>> I fail to understand the need for platform data. Why can't DT be used
>> for the older revisions as well?

It was decided to have dt file for a single soc revision. So the default dts
corresponds to rev 2.0.
> 
> Maybe the silicon revision is not available via soc_device_match()?

hmm.. looks like we can get rid of pdata if we use soc_device_match. Thanks for
the hint.

Regards
Kishon