linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] LLCC: Support for Broadcast

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Message-ID: <ab88f10f-d752-4c6a-b0e5-d8b05af99c28@quicinc.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 11:41:24 -0800
From: Unnathi Chalicheemala <quic_uchalich@...cinc.com>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson
	<andersson@...nel.org>,
        Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>,
        Rob Herring
	<robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski
	<krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>
CC: <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>, <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <kernel@...cinc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] LLCC: Support for Broadcast_AND region

On 2/6/2024 12:34 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 06/02/2024 08:15, Unnathi Chalicheemala wrote:
>> This series adds:
>> 1. Device tree register mapping for Broadcast_AND region in SM8450,
>> SM8550, SM8650.
>> 2. LLCC driver updates to reflect addition of Broadcast_AND regmap.
>>
>> To support CSR programming, a broadcast interface is used to program all
>> channels in a single command. Until SM8450 there was only one broadcast
>> region (Broadcast_OR) used to broadcast write and check for status bit
>> 0. From SM8450 onwards another broadcast region (Broadcast_AND) has been
>> added which checks for status bit 1.
>>
>> This series updates the device trees from SM8450 onwards to have a
>> mapping to this Broadcast_AND region. It also updates the llcc_drv_data
>> structure with a regmap for Broadcast_AND region and corrects the
>> broadcast region used to check for status bit 1.
>>
>> Merging strategy
>> ----------------
>>
>> All patches should be merged due to LLCC DeviceTree/driver dependency.
> 
> Dependency? Sorry, there cannot be a dependency between DTS and driver.
> Please fix your patchset.
> 

This is the suggested merge strategy. But I have updated the driver in v2
to ensure that applying the driver patch alone will work with existing DTs.
Sorry for being unclear; "should" does make it sound like there is a hard
dependency. 

> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
>