linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] dt-bindings: mmc: Drop unused properties

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Message-Id: <C9C76D81-7244-4549-97E2-83CE10050A74@jrtc27.com>
Date:   Fri, 1 Sep 2023 19:39:14 +0100
From:   Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@...c27.com>
To:     Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>
Cc:     William Qiu <william.qiu@...rfivetech.com>,
        Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@...rochip.com>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-riscv <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>,
        linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org, Emil Renner Berthing <kernel@...il.dk>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Jaehoon Chung <jh80.chung@...sung.com>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] dt-bindings: mmc: Drop unused properties

On 1 Sep 2023, at 18:43, Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 06:20:38PM +0100, Jessica Clarke wrote:
>> On 1 Sep 2023, at 16:42, Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 10:33:13AM +0800, William Qiu wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 2023/8/30 16:34, Conor Dooley wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 09:29:20AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>>>>> On 30/08/2023 08:50, Conor Dooley wrote:
>>>>>>> On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 11:18:44AM +0800, William Qiu wrote:
>>>>>>>> Due to the change of tuning implementation, it's no longer necessary to
>>>>>>>> use the "starfive,sysreg" property in dts, so drop the relevant
>>>>>>>> description in dt-bindings here.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> How does changing your software implantation invalidate a description of
>>>>>>> the hardware?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Which is kind of proof that this syscon was just to substitute
>>>>>> incomplete hardware description (e.g. missing clocks and phys). We
>>>>>> should have rejected it. Just like we should reject them in the future.
>>>>> 
>>>>> :s I dunno what to do with this... I'm inclined to say not to remove it
>>>>> from the binding or dts at all & only change the software.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> There are just few cases where syscon is reasonable. All others is just
>>>>>> laziness. It's not only starfivetech, of course. Several other
>>>>>> contributors do the same.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm not sure if laziness is fair, lack of understanding is usually more
>>>>> likely.
>>>> 
>>>> For this, I tend to keep it in binding, but remove it from required. Because
>>>> we only modify the tuning implementation, it doesn't mean that this property
>>>> need to be removed, it's just no longer be the required one.
>>> 
>>> Please only remove it from required if the current driver doesn't break
>>> if the regmap is removed.
>> 
>> Either way please make sure the documentation clearly states “never use
>> this, if you’re using it you’re doing it wrong, this only exists
>> because it was wrongly used in the past”. Otherwise people writing
>> drivers for other OSes will probably use it too thinking they need to.
> 
> Maybe we should just delete it if the impact is going to be negligible,
> sounds like you're not using it in FreeBSD, which was part of what I was
> worried about. Guess it depends on what Emil & the distro heads think.

FreeBSD doesn’t have StarFive drivers yet; I don’t have time to write
them, and a community member has taken it upon themselves as a hobby
but is rather inexperienced and has been struggling for months. OpenBSD
has drivers, including a modified dwmmc, but doesn’t use this property
(in fact its driver doesn’t use the compatible other than to probe the
generic driver). I don’t think anyone else has a serious port; Haiku’s
the closest but also has no StarFive support.

Jess