linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 13/24] drivers: thermal: tsens: Print IP version

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Message-ID: <CAP245DUEbYhMw0WMP713uB34xVO0AF3-u_knpXfjP=858FgO-w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 20 Feb 2019 14:49:53 +0530
From:   Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...aro.org>
To:     Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Andy Gross <andy.gross@...aro.org>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        David Brown <david.brown@...aro.org>,
        Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
        Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 13/24] drivers: thermal: tsens: Print IP version

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 6:47 AM Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 04:19:31PM +0530, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> > On some TSENS IP, version is stored. Print that version at init.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...aro.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/thermal/qcom/tsens-common.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/thermal/qcom/tsens-common.c b/drivers/thermal/qcom/tsens-common.c
> > index aae3d71d7eed..39cd5733fd44 100644
> > --- a/drivers/thermal/qcom/tsens-common.c
> > +++ b/drivers/thermal/qcom/tsens-common.c
> > @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ int __init init_common(struct tsens_priv *priv)
> >       void __iomem *tm_base, *srot_base;
> >       struct device *dev = priv->dev;
> >       struct resource *res;
> > -     u32 enabled;
> > +     u32 enabled, maj_ver, min_ver;
> >       int ret, i, j;
> >       struct platform_device *op = of_find_device_by_node(priv->dev->of_node);
> >
> > @@ -155,6 +155,27 @@ int __init init_common(struct tsens_priv *priv)
> >       if (IS_ERR(priv->tm_map))
> >               return PTR_ERR(priv->tm_map);
> >
> > +     for (i = 0; i < MAX_REGFIELDS; i++) {
> > +             priv->rf[i] = NULL;
> > +     }
> > +
> > +     /* alloc regmap_fields in srot_map */
> > +     if (priv->feat->ver_info) {
> > +             for (i = 0, j = VER_MAJOR; i < 2; i++, j++) {
> > +                     priv->rf[j] = devm_regmap_field_alloc(dev, priv->srot_map,
> > +                                                           priv->fields[j]);
> > +                     if (IS_ERR(priv->rf[j]))
> > +                             return PTR_ERR(priv->rf[j]);
> > +             }
> > +             ret = regmap_field_read(priv->rf[VER_MAJOR], &maj_ver);
> > +             if (ret)
> > +                     return ret;
> > +             ret = regmap_field_read(priv->rf[VER_MINOR], &min_ver);
> > +             if (ret)
> > +                     return ret;
> > +             dev_info(dev, "version: %d.%d\n", maj_ver, min_ver);
>
> Is this really needed? Printing stuff into kernel log during boot can
> just add a lot of info that ends up just slowing down things. Besides,
> if this info is important shouldnt be available somewhere else as the
> kernel log is a circular buffer and eventually that line will get
> wrapped up?

Fair point, I'll remove this statement and dump this into debugfs for
which I'll send a separate series adding debugfs support.