linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 08/52] dt-bindings: memory: tegra20: emc: Document mfd-simple compatible and statistics sub-device

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Message-ID: <0a619270-b301-4eeb-6216-0ad5fed6a20a@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 27 Oct 2020 22:23:22 +0300
From:   Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>
To:     Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
Cc:     Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>,
        Georgi Djakov <georgi.djakov@...aro.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
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        Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@...dia.com>,
        MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@...sung.com>,
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        Viresh Kumar <vireshk@...nel.org>,
        Peter Geis <pgwipeout@...il.com>,
        Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart@...il.com>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 08/52] dt-bindings: memory: tegra20: emc: Document
 mfd-simple compatible and statistics sub-device

27.10.2020 16:22, Thierry Reding пишет:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 01:16:51AM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>> External Memory Controller can gather various hardware statistics that
>> are intended to be used for debugging purposes and for dynamic frequency
>> scaling of memory bus.
>>
>> Document the new mfd-simple compatible and EMC statistics sub-device.
>> The subdev contains EMC DFS OPP table and interconnect paths to be used
>> for dynamic scaling of system's memory bandwidth based on EMC utilization
>> statistics.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>
>> ---
>>  .../memory-controllers/nvidia,tegra20-emc.txt | 43 +++++++++++++++++--
>>  1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> Why does this have to be modelled as a separate device? Isn't this just
> using a couple of registers out of the EMC register range? If so, this
> would better just be integrated into the parent node and implemented as
> part of the EMC driver. No need to further complicate things by adding
> a dummy child.

Maybe true, I'll take a closer look.