linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] dt-bindings: Consolidate SRAM bindings from all vendors

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Message-ID: <20151022133447.GZ10947@lukather>
Date:	Thu, 22 Oct 2015 15:34:47 +0200
From:	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>
Cc:	Kukjin Kim <kgene@...nel.org>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org,
	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>,
	Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>, Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] dt-bindings: Consolidate SRAM bindings from all
 vendors

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 06:19:31PM +0900, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 22.10.2015 18:05, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:25:28AM +0900, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> >> SRAM bindings for various SoCs, using the mmio-sram genalloc
> >> API, are spread over different places - per SoC vendor. Since all of
> >> these are quite similar (they depend on mmio-sram) move them to a common
> >> place.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>
> >> Cc: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>
> >> Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
> >> Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>
> >> Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene@...nel.org>
> >> Suggested-by: Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
> >>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> Changes since v1:
> >> 1. New patch. Extended suggestion from Rob.
> >> ---
> >>  .../bindings/{arm/rockchip/pmu-sram.txt => sram/rockchip-pmu-sram.txt}    | 0
> >>  .../bindings/{arm/rockchip/smp-sram.txt => sram/rockchip-smp-sram.txt}    | 0
> >>  .../bindings/{arm/exynos/smp-sysram.txt => sram/samsung-sram.txt}         | 0
> >>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/{misc => sram}/sram.txt                 | 0
> >>  .../devicetree/bindings/{soc/sunxi/sram.txt => sram/sunxi-sram.txt}       | 0
> >>  5 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >>  rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/{arm/rockchip/pmu-sram.txt => sram/rockchip-pmu-sram.txt} (100%)
> >>  rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/{arm/rockchip/smp-sram.txt => sram/rockchip-smp-sram.txt} (100%)
> >>  rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/{arm/exynos/smp-sysram.txt => sram/samsung-sram.txt} (100%)
> >>  rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/{misc => sram}/sram.txt (100%)
> >>  rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/{soc/sunxi/sram.txt => sram/sunxi-sram.txt} (100%)
> > 
> > I'm not sure about that one. The SRAM bindins we have for sunxi is for
> > an SRAM controller, that maps the SRAM either to the CPU or to the
> > devices.
> > 
> > It's not really related to the other users, and wouldn't it be
> > confusing to have a driver in drivers/soc, and a Documentation in
> > another sub-directory?
> 
> I guess the only relation to other users is the "mmio-sram". In the same
> time this is still similar to e.g. Samsung's sram bindings (where the
> memory is mapped to CPU only).
> 
> Being located in drivers/soc is not an issue here - code for other
> vendors may be moved there as well in the future.
> 
> Of course I do not insist. Actually Rob's comment was only about moving
> sram.txt and Samsung's sram to common place.
> 
> Anyway I will be sending v3 of these because while looking more
> carefully I found hard-coded paths to bindings/misc/sram.txt. I'll fix
> it in next version.

I didn't really have the context. If Rob feels like we should do that,
then go ahead.

Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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