linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] spi: Add HiSilicon v3xx SPI NOR flash controller driver

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Date:   Fri, 10 Jan 2020 15:12:20 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
Cc:     tudor.ambarus@...rochip.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        chenxiang66@...ilicon.com, linuxarm@...wei.com,
        linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, marek.vasut@...il.com,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, xuejiancheng@...ilicon.com,
        fengsheng5@...wei.com,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        wanghuiqiang <wanghuiqiang@...wei.com>, liusimin4@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] spi: Add HiSilicon v3xx SPI NOR flash controller
 driver

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 02:58:54PM +0000, John Garry wrote:
> On 10/01/2020 14:07, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 11:55:37AM +0000, John Garry wrote: >

> > OK, so that's just reusing the DT binding in which case everything
> > that's valid for the DT binding should also be valid for ACPI - I
> > thought that actually worked automatically without you having to do
> > anything in the code but ICBW.

> I thought that it would be improper as we could be mixing ACPI methods to
> describe the serial bus (SPI Serial Bus Connection Resource Descriptor) and
> also DT properties which could conflict, like CS active high.

Yes, that's one of the issues with importing bits of DT into ACPI
unfortunately - you will get conflicts, it's not clear it's a good idea
to be using PRP0001 for SPI stuff given that there's bus level bindings
for both ACPI and SPI and they don't line up exactly.

> However I do see extra properties than "compatible" being added in DSD for
> PRP0001:
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/662813/ (see EEPROM part)

> And if we were to do this, I think that we would need to add some
> device_property_read_u32("spi-rx-bus-width", ...), etc calls in the SPI FW
> parsing for ACPI path - I couldn't see that.

You'd need parsing code, yes.

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