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Message-ID: <1425902271.13300.18.camel@mhfsdcap03>
Date:	Mon, 9 Mar 2015 19:57:51 +0800
From:	Yong Wu <yong.wu@...iatek.com>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
CC:	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
	Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...gle.com>,
	Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...gle.com>,
	Lucas Stach <l.stach@...gutronix.de>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	"Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	<linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Sasha Hauer <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
	<srv_heupstream@...iatek.com>, <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	<iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] soc: mediatek: Add SMI driver

Dear Paul,
      Thanks very much for your suggestion.

On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 12:30 +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 18:48 +0800, yong.wu@...iatek.com wrote:
> > --- a/drivers/soc/mediatek/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/soc/mediatek/Kconfig
> > @@ -20,3 +20,10 @@ config MT8173_PMIC_WRAP
> >  	  PMIC wrapper is a proprietary hardware in MT8173 to make
> >  	  communication protocols to access PMIC device.
> >  	  This driver implement access protocols for MT8173.
> > +
> > +config MTK_SMI
> > +        bool
> 
> Nit: make this one tab instead of 8 spaces, please.
> 
> > +	help
> > +	  Smi help enable/disable iommu in mt8173 and control the
> > +	  clock of each local arbiter.
> > +	  It should be true while MTK_IOMMU enable.
> 
> I don't think anyone using the *config tools will ever see this text, as
> there's no prompt. So you might as well make this a comment or drop it
> altogether.
> 
     We could search it in the tool even though we don't see it. In next
version, I will try to make it a comment.
> Is this selected by more than just MTK_IOMMU (see 2/5)? If not, I think
> MTK_SMI will be set and unset in lockstep with MTK_IOMMU. In other
> words, you could as well use one Kconfig symbol.
> 
> Thanks,
    if we disable MTK_IOMMU, the MTK_SMI also should be selected.That is because 
if the multimedia h/w want to work, the clock of the local arbiters always should be opened.
> 
> Paul Bolle
> 


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