linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] phy: qcom-qmp: Utilize fully-specified DT registers

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Date:   Thu, 25 Oct 2018 11:45:59 +0530
From:   Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@...eaurora.org>
To:     Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
Cc:     Evan Green <evgreen@...omium.org>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Andy Gross <andy.gross@...aro.org>,
        Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>,
        Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>, cang@...eaurora.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Manu Gautam <mgautam@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] phy: qcom-qmp: Utilize fully-specified DT
 registers

On 2018-10-25 02:06, Doug Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 11:29 AM Vivek Gautam
> <vivek.gautam@...eaurora.org> wrote:
>> Thanks for the patch.
>> I am starting to think that the driver is heavily relying on the
>> resource indices to request
>> all these areas ioremapped. Is it a good way forward that driver and 
>> the
>> dt bindings are
>> chained together?
>> Should we rather switch to requesting these resources by some names?
>> 
>> Rob can comment on this possibly.
> 
> I thought about suggesting that but I know that Rob really doesn't
> like accessing register ranges by name [1].  Even in cases where you
> reference things by name Rob likes there to be a fully defined order
> and once you have a fully defined order you don't really need the
> names unless you have more than one optional register range.

Right, I second that. I was looking for options. :)

> 
> In any case, Rob already gave his review to Evan's bindings change.  
> See:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20181023002903.GA16854@bogus

Yea, I saw that too.

Best regards
Vivek

> 
> ...so my vote would be to keep it as Evan's patch series has it and
> not try to bikeshed it.
> 
> 
>> Reviewed-by: Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@...eaurora.org>
> 
> Thanks for the review!
> 
> 
> [1]
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAL_Jsq+MMunmVWqeW9v2RyzsMKP+=kMzeTHNMG4JDHM7Fy0HBg@mail.gmail.com
> 
> -Doug