linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 14/18] serial: intel: Add CCF support

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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdWY9NuYOXq8sD9wmH48=vhMcSBomRY9ZbC+tGE3PGiTGg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 6 Aug 2018 09:20:16 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     songjun.wu@...ux.intel.com
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>, hua.ma@...ux.intel.com,
        yixin.zhu@...ux.intel.com, chuanhua.lei@...ux.intel.com,
        qi-ming.wu@...el.com,
        Linux MIPS Mailing List <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>,
        linux-clk <linux-clk@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:SERIAL DRIVERS" <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 14/18] serial: intel: Add CCF support

Hi Songjun,

On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 9:15 AM Wu, Songjun <songjun.wu@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> On 8/5/2018 5:03 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >> On Sat, Aug 04, 2018 at 12:54:22PM +0200, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> >>> On 08/03/2018 12:30 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >>>> On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 03:33:38PM +0800, Wu, Songjun wrote:
> >>> This patch makes it possible to use it with the legacy lantiq code and
> >>> also with the common clock framework. I see multiple options to fix this
> >>> problem.
> >>>
> >>> 1. The current approach to have it as a compile variant for a) legacy
> >>> lantiq arch code without common clock framework and b) support for SoCs
> >>> using the common clock framework.
> >>> 2. Convert the lantiq arch code to the common clock framework. This
> >>> would be a good approach, but it need some efforts.
> >>> 3. Remove the arch/mips/lantiq code. There are still users of this code.
> >>> 4. Use the old APIs also for the new xRX500 SoC, I do not like this
> >>> approach.
> >>> 5. Move lantiq_soc.h to somewhere in include/linux/ so it is globally
> >>> available and provide some better wrapper code.
> >> I don't really care what you do at this point in time, but you all
> >> should know better than the crazy #ifdef is not allowed to try to
> >> prevent/allow the inclusion of a .h file.  Checkpatch might have even
> >> warned you about it, right?
> >>
> >> So do it correctly, odds are #5 is correct, as that makes it work like
> >> any other device in the kernel.  You are not unique here.
> > The best approach here would clearly be 2. We don't want platform
> > specific header files for doing things that should be completely generic.
> >
> > Converting lantiq to the common-clk framework obviously requires
> > some work, but then again the whole arch/mips/lantiq/clk.c file
> > is fairly short and maybe not that hard to convert.
> >
> > >From looking at arch/mips/lantiq/xway/sysctrl.c, it appears that you
> > already use the clkdev lookup mechanism for some devices without
> > using COMMON_CLK, so I would assume that you can also use those
> > for the remaining clks, which would be much simpler. It registers
> > one anonymous clk there as
> >
> >          clkdev_add_pmu("1e100c00.serial", NULL, 0, 0, PMU_ASC1);
> >
> > so why not add replace that with two named clocks and just use
> > the same names in the DT for the newer chip?
> >
> >        Arnd
> We discussed internally and have another solution for this issue.
> Add one lantiq.h in the serial folder, and use "#ifdef preprocessor" in
> lantiq.h,
> also providing no-op stub functions in the #else case, then call those
> functions
> unconditionally from lantiq.c to avoid #ifdef in C file.
>
> To support CCF in legacy product is another topic, is not included in
> this patch.
>
> The implementation is as following：
> #ifdef CONFIG_LANTIQ
> #include <lantiq_soc.h>
> #else
> #define LTQ_EARLY_ASC 0
> #define CPHYSADDR(_val) 0
>
> static inline struct clk *clk_get_fpi(void)
> {
>      return NULL;
> }
> #endif

Why not use clkdev_add(), as Arnd suggested?
That would be a 3-line patch without introducing a new header file and an ugly
#ifdef, which complicates compile coverage testing?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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