linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 00/10] add support for fwnode in i2c mux system and sfp

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Date:   Tue, 22 Feb 2022 09:26:43 +0100
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Clément Léger <clement.leger@...tlin.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Daniel Scally <djrscally@...il.com>,
        Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa@...nel.org>, Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-i2c <linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 00/10] add support for fwnode in i2c mux system and sfp

On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 5:57 AM Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> wrote:
>
> > This series has been tested on a x86 kernel build without CONFIG_OF.
> > Another kernel was also built with COMPILE_TEST and CONFIG_OF support
> > to build as most drivers as possible. It was also tested on a sparx5
> > arm64 with CONFIG_OF. However, it was not tested with an ACPI
> > description evolved enough to validate all the changes.
>
> By that, do you mean a DSD description?
>
> In the DT world, we avoid snow flakes. Once you define a binding, it
> is expected every following board will use it. So what i believe you
> are doing here is defining how i2c muxes are described in APCI.

Linux kernel has already established description of I2C muxes in ACPI:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/firmware-guide/acpi/i2c-muxes.html

I'm not sure we want another one.

> How
> SFP devices are described in ACPI. Until the ACPI standards committee
> says otherwise, this is it. So you need to clearly document
> this. Please add to Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/dsd.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko