netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] dt: bindings: add new dt entries for brcmfmac

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Date:   Thu, 05 Apr 2018 16:10:58 +0300
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:     Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
Cc:     Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@...adcom.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Alexey Roslyakov <alexey.roslyakov@...il.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Franky Lin <franky.lin@...adcom.com>,
        Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@...adcom.com>,
        Chi-Hsien Lin <chi-hsien.lin@...ress.com>,
        Wright Feng <wright.feng@...ress.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@...adcom.com, brcm80211-dev-list@...ress.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] dt: bindings: add new dt entries for brcmfmac

Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org> writes:

> On 20 March 2018 at 10:55, Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org> wrote:
>> Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@...adcom.com> writes:
>>
>>>>> If I get it right, you mean something like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> mmc3: mmc@...2000 {
>>>>> ...
>>>>>          broken-sg-support;
>>>>>          sd-head-align = 4;
>>>>>          sd-sgentry-align = 512;
>>>>>
>>>>>          brcmf: wifi@1 {
>>>>>                  ...
>>>>>          };
>>>>> };
>>>>>
>>>>> Where dt: bindings documentation for these entries should reside?
>>>>> In generic MMC bindings? Well, this is the very special case and
>>>>> mmc-linux maintainer will unlikely to accept these changes.
>>>>> Also, extra kernel code modification might be required. It could make
>>>>> quite trivial change much more complex.
>>>>
>>>> If the MMC maintainers are not copied on this patch series, it will
>>>> likely be hard for them to identify this patch series and chime in...
>>>
>>> The main question is whether this is indeed a "very special case" as
>>> Alexey claims it to be or that it is likely to be applicable to other
>>> device and host combinations as you are suggesting.
>>>
>>> If these properties are imposed by the host or host controller it
>>> would make sense to have these in the mmc bindings.
>>
>> BTW, last year we were discussing something similar (I mean related to
>> alignment requirements) with ath10k SDIO patches and at the time the
>> patch submitter was proposing to have a bounce buffer in ath10k to
>> workaround that. I don't remember the details anymore, they are on the
>> ath10k mailing list archive if anyone is curious to know, but I would
>> not be surprised if they are similar as here. So there might be a need
>> to solve this in a generic way (but not sure of course as I haven't
>> checked the details).
>
> I re-call something about these as well, here are the patches. Perhaps
> I should pick some of them up...
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10123137/
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10123139/
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10123141/
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10123143/

Actually I was talking about a different patch, found it now:

ath10k_sdio: DMA bounce buffers for read write

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9979543/

-- 
Kalle Valo