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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 08:44:26 +0800
From: Chen Wang <unicorn_wang@...look.com>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>,
 Chen Wang <unicornxw@...il.com>, aou@...s.berkeley.edu, chao.wei@...hgo.com,
 conor@...nel.org, krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org,
 mturquette@...libre.com, palmer@...belt.com, paul.walmsley@...ive.com,
 richardcochran@...il.com, robh+dt@...nel.org, sboyd@...nel.org,
 devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
 haijiao.liu@...hgo.com, xiaoguang.xing@...hgo.com, guoren@...nel.org,
 jszhang@...nel.org, inochiama@...look.com, samuel.holland@...ive.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] dt-bindings: soc: sophgo: Add Sophgo system
 control module


On 2024/1/9 16:56, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 09/01/2024 09:52, Chen Wang wrote:
>> On 2024/1/9 3:36, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>> On 08/01/2024 08:20, Chen Wang wrote:
>>>> On 2024/1/8 15:03, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>>>> On 08/01/2024 07:48, Chen Wang wrote:
>>>>>> From: Chen Wang <unicorn_wang@...look.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Add documentation to describe Sophgo System Controller for SG2042.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Chen Wang <unicorn_wang@...look.com>
>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>     .../soc/sophgo/sophgo,sg2042-sysctrl.yaml     | 34 +++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>     1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
>>>>>>     create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/sophgo/sophgo,sg2042-sysctrl.yaml
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/sophgo/sophgo,sg2042-sysctrl.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/sophgo/sophgo,sg2042-sysctrl.yaml
>>>>>> new file mode 100644
>>>>>> index 000000000000..1ec1eaa55598
>>>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/sophgo/sophgo,sg2042-sysctrl.yaml
>>>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
>>>>>> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause)
>>>>>> +%YAML 1.2
>>>>>> +---
>>>>>> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/soc/sophgo/sophgo,sg2042-sysctrl.yaml#
>>>>>> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +title: Sophgo SG2042 SoC system controller
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +maintainers:
>>>>>> +  - Chen Wang <unicorn_wang@...look.com>
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +description:
>>>>>> +  The Sophgo SG2042 SoC system controller provides register information such
>>>>>> +  as offset, mask and shift that can be used by other modules, such as clocks.
>>>>> "offset, mask and shift" is not a register information stored in
>>>>> syscons. Are you really sure, that your system controller hardware
>>>>> stores offsets of some other registers?
>>>>>
>>>>> Show as some example of such offsets, masks and shifts provided by this
>>>>> hardware.
>>>> The system control module is defined here:
>>>> https://github.com/sophgo/sophgo-doc/blob/main/SG2042/TRM/source/system-control.rst.
>>>> It contains some registers related to pll and gates.
>>> I do not see there registers providing shifts and offsets... just values.
>>>
>>>> Some other clocks registars are defined in
>>>> https://github.com/sophgo/sophgo-doc/blob/main/SG2042/TRM/source/clock.rst.
>>>>
>>>> memory-map is defined in
>>>> https://github.com/sophgo/sophgo-doc/blob/main/SG2042/TRM/source/mmap.rst
>>> Please fix the wording because it does not make sense. System controller
>>> does not provide register information. Your datasheet provides register
>>> information.
>> Could it be that what I said "that can be used by other modules, such as
> modules as Linux modules should not be involved in this description.
>
>> clocks." may cause misunderstanding. I plan to change it to "The Sophgo
>> SG2042 SoC system controller provides register information such as
>> offset, mask and shift to configure related modules such as clock." Is
>> this better?
>>
> Still does not make sense. To provide "offset" means that some other
> hardware reads sophgo module to get the value of offset. That's not the
> case here.

I'm probably starting to understand what you mean. How about changing it 
to the following?

The Sophgo system controller is a registers block, providing multiple 
low level platform functions like chip configuration, clock control, etc.

>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
>

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