Message-ID: <3440260.edal29kzlR@diego>
Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 2014 18:11:43 +0200
From:	Heiko Stübner <heiko@...ech.de>
To:	Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Caesar Wang <caesar.wang@...k-chips.com>, rui.zhang@...el.com,
	grant.likely@...aro.org, robh+dt@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, huangtao@...k-chips.com,
	cf@...k-chips.com, dianders@...omium.org, dtor@...omium.org,
	zyw@...k-chips.com, addy.ke@...k-chips.com,
	dmitry.torokhov@...il.com, zhaoyifeng <zyf@...k-chips.com>,
	linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] thermal: rockchip: add driver for thermal

Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2014, 10:37:35 schrieb Eduardo Valentin:
> Ceasar and Arnd,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:48:23AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Thursday 28 August 2014 08:59:19 Caesar Wang wrote:
> > > Thermal is TS-ADC Controller module supports user-defined mode and
> > > automatic mode.
> > > 
> > > User-defined mode refers,TSADC all the control signals entirely by
> > > software
> > > writing to register for direct control.
> > > 
> > > Automaic mode refers to the module automatically poll TSADC output,and
> > > the results Were checked.
> > > 
> > > If you find that the temperature High in a period of time, an interrupt
> > > is generated to the processor down-measures taken;if the temperature
> > > over a period of time High, the resulting TSHUT gave CRU module,let it
> > > reset the entire chip, or via GPIO give PMIC.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: zhaoyifeng <zyf@...k-chips.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Caesar Wang <caesar.wang@...k-chips.com>
> > 
> > Hi Caesar,
> > 
> > After looking at the driver (last time I only received the patch for
> > the binding), I have a more general comment:
> > 
> > This looks like a general-purpose ADC device, not an IP block that is
> > specific to thermal management. The binding looks ok for that purpose
> > but should probably be moved into
> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/ as a minor change.
> 
> I agree with Arnd's point here. It makes sense to me to have this driver
> under the IIO umbrella.

interesting suggestion :-)

I've just taken another look at the registers of the ts-adc on the rk3066 
which is completely different from the rk3288 one. Interestingly the rk3066 one 
is "just" another saradc IP, so for this one it would really make sense.


> > On the driver side, I believe the correct way to deal with this setup
> > is to split your driver into a generic drivers/iio/adc/rockchips-tsadc.c
> > file, and a smaller thermal driver that uses the iio in-kernel interfaces,
> > ideally one that is independent of the underlying hardware and can
> > work on any ADC implementation.
> 
> Agreed. If you can write such interface and make your driver to work in
> such way, that would be great.

But I currently don't see how you would model the temperature handling parts 
from a generic thermal driver to a generic adc driver for the rk3288-tsadc.

I guess the general temperature irq handling would use iio-triggers? But how 
does the target temperature get into the TSADC_COMP1_INT register.

Also when getting the temperature, Caesar's driver compares it to its trip 
points and sets the next trip point depending on the current temperature 
(passive <-> critical) in rockchip_get_temp.

Maybe there is some completely easy way for this, but currently I don't see 
it.


Heiko
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