linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 9/9] mtd: rawnand: jz4780-bch: Add support for the JZ4740

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Date:   Sun, 3 Feb 2019 15:16:04 +0100
From:   Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@...nel.org>
To:     Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net>
Cc:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
        Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Harvey Hunt <harveyhuntnexus@...il.com>,
        Mathieu Malaterre <malat@...ian.org>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 9/9] mtd: rawnand: jz4780-bch: Add support for the
 JZ4740

On Sun, 03 Feb 2019 10:58:13 -0300
Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net> wrote:

> Le dim. 3 févr. 2019 à 4:35, Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@...nel.org> 
> a écrit :
> > On Sat,  2 Feb 2019 20:19:26 -0300
> > Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net> wrote:
> >   
> >>  Add the backend code for the jz4780-bch driver to support the JZ4740
> >>  SoC from Ingenic.
> >> 
> >>  Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net>
> >>  ---
> >> 
> >>  Changes:
> >> 
> >>  v2: New patch
> >> 
> >>   drivers/mtd/nand/raw/ingenic/Makefile         |   2 +-
> >>   drivers/mtd/nand/raw/ingenic/jz4740_bch.c     | 173 
> >> ++++++++++++++++++
> >>   .../mtd/nand/raw/ingenic/jz4780_bch_common.c  |   1 +
> >>   .../nand/raw/ingenic/jz4780_bch_internal.h    |   1 +
> >>   4 files changed, 176 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>   create mode 100644 drivers/mtd/nand/raw/ingenic/jz4740_bch.c
> >> 
> >>  diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/ingenic/Makefile 
> >> b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/ingenic/Makefile
> >>  index f38b467490cf..d16c96113a93 100644
> >>  --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/ingenic/Makefile
> >>  +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/ingenic/Makefile
> >>  @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
> >>   obj-$(CONFIG_MTD_NAND_JZ4740) += jz4740_nand.o
> >>   obj-$(CONFIG_MTD_NAND_JZ4780) += jz4780_nand.o jz4780_bch_common.o 
> >> \
> >>  -				 jz4780_bch.o jz4725b_bch.o
> >>  +				 jz4780_bch.o jz4725b_bch.o jz4740_bch.o  
> > 
> > I still don't see the point of the jz4780_bch_common/jz47xxx_bch
> > separation. You seem to always embed all objects anyway, so you can
> > just put the code for both engines in the same source file and decide
> > which one to use based on the compat (which you already do anyway).  
> 
> Each SoC has a different set of registers for the BCH hardware. I can 
> try to
> cram everything into one file, but it won't be that much cleaner.

Then maybe they deserve separate drivers/modules.

BTW, didn't you say that one IP uses Reed-Salomon instead of BCH. I'd
suggest prefixing structs and functions with jz47xx_ecc instead of
jz47xx_bch and naming the common part jz47xx_ecc.c to reflect that.