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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 17:17:10 +0530 From: Apurva Nandan <a-nandan@...com> To: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...labora.com> CC: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>, Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>, Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard@...s.st.com>, Christophe Kerello <christophe.kerello@...s.st.com>, Daniel Palmer <daniel@...f.com>, Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@...me>, <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-spi@...r.kernel.org>, <p.yadav@...com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 05/17] mtd: spinand: Define ctrl_ops for non-page read/write op templates On 10/03/22 14:10, Boris Brezillon wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:27:06 +0530 > Apurva Nandan <a-nandan@...com> wrote: > >>>>> This way, you can easily pick the right set of operations based >>>>> on the protocol/mode you're in: >>>>> >>>>> #define spinand_get_op_template(spinand, opname) \ >>>>> ((spinand)->op_templates[(spinand)->protocol]->opname) >>>>> >>>>> static int spinand_read_reg_op(struct spinand_device *spinand, u8 reg, u8 *val) >>>>> { >>>>> struct spi_mem_op op = *spinand_get_op_template(spinand, get_feature); >>>>> int ret; >>>>> >>>>> ... >>>>> } >>>> I find a couple of issues with thisĀ method, >>>> >>>> 1. read_cache, write_cache, update_cache op templates don't fit well >>>> with the other non-data ops, as >>>> these data ops are used to create a dirmap, and that can be done only >>>> once at probe time. Hence, there >>>> is a different mechanism of selecting of data ops and non-data ops. >>> Not sure I see why this is a problem. You can populate data-ops for all >>> modes, and pick the one that provides the best perfs when you create >>> the dirmap (which should really be at the end of the probe, if it's not >>> already). >>> >>>> Hence, this division in the op templates >>>> struct as data_ops and ctrl_ops is required. Currently, the core only >>>> supports using a single protocol for >>>> data ops, chosen at the time of probing. >>> Again, I don't see why you need to differentiate the control and data >>> ops when populating this table. Those are just operations the NAND >>> supports, and the data operations is just a subset. >>> >>>> 2. If we use this single op_templates struct, I can't think of any good >>>> way to initialize these in the >>>> manufacturers driver (winbond.c), refer to 17th patch in this series. >>>> Could you please suggest a macro >>>> implementation also for winbond.c with the suggested op_templates struct. >>> First replace the op_variants field by something more generic: >>> >>> struct spinand_info { >>> ... >>> const struct spinand_op_variants **ops_variants; >>> ... >>> }; >>> >>> #define SPINAND_OP_VARIANTS(_id, ...) \ >>> [SPI_NAND_OP_ ## _id] = { __VA_ARGS__ } >>> >>> #define SPINAND_OPS_VARIANTS(name, ...) >>> const struct spinand_op_variants name[]{ >>> __VA_ARGS__, >>> }; >>> >>> #define SPINAND_INFO_OPS_VARIANTS(defs) >>> .ops_variants = defs >> If we modify these macros, it would require other spinand vendor drivers >> to change (toshiba, micron, etc). >> The older macros suit them well, should we go about changing them to >> this new macro (will require re-testing all of them), >> or can we keep them unchanged and have new set of macros with different >> name (please give suggestion for it) for op variants. > I'd rather have everything converted to the new approach (we don't want > 2 ways of describing the same thing), and I'm not sure you can make the > old macros map to the new solution, so I fear you'll have to patch all > vendors. This being said, I'm fine providing simple wrappers if that > helps, but I don't see how they'd make the description simpler/more > compact to be honest. Okay, I will convert all of the vendor drivers, but please note I don't have any way to test the changes on all the flashes.
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