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Hello. On 07/30/2015 10:59 PM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > The "compatible" property text contradicts even the example given in the MMCIF > binding document itself; moreover, the Renesas MMCIF driver only matches on > the generic "compatible" string, and doesn't look for at SoC specific strings "For" not needed here. > currently at all. Thus describe "renesas,sh-mmcif" string as mandatory and the > others as optional. > Fixes: b4c27763d749 ("mmc: sh_mmcif: Document DT bindings") > Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> Do I need to repost? MBR, Sergei -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sh" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Hi Sergei, On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 4:59 AM, Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> wrote: > The "compatible" property text contradicts even the example given in the MMCIF > binding document itself; moreover, the Renesas MMCIF driver only matches on > the generic "compatible" string, and doesn't look for at SoC specific strings > currently at all. Thus describe "renesas,sh-mmcif" string as mandatory and the > others as optional. > > Fixes: b4c27763d749 ("mmc: sh_mmcif: Document DT bindings") > Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> Thanks for your efforts trying to improve the DT binding documentation. > --- renesas.orig/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/renesas,mmcif.txt > +++ renesas/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/renesas,mmcif.txt > @@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ and the properties used by the MMCIF dev > > Required properties: > > -- compatible: must contain one of the following > +- compatible: must contain "renesas,sh-mmcif"; may also contain one of > + the following: > - "renesas,mmcif-r8a7740" for the MMCIF found in r8a7740 SoCs > - "renesas,mmcif-r8a7790" for the MMCIF found in r8a7790 SoCs > - "renesas,mmcif-r8a7791" for the MMCIF found in r8a7791 SoCs > - - "renesas,sh-mmcif" for the generic MMCIF As you know, each SoC contains a wide range of on-chip devices and the MMCIF device is just one of them. Exactly how to manage the DT bindings must be up to each maintainer and of course this needs to be aligned with the SoC maintainer and SoC vendor with policies used for SoC support and BSPs and whatnot. Changing policy like this for a single device without at least discussing this with the SoC maintainers does not help. For Renesas hardware we so far use both SoC part number and optionally a generic binding as well. As commonly expected, the DT binding is supposed to describe the hardware and if hardware devices are compatible. Unless we use SoC part number in the compatible string there is a risk that the SoC integrator simply copy-and-pastes generic bindings "because it works" but this will result in DT binding based on software compatibility and not hardware compatibility. Later when the driver support is extended this may result in broken software due to incorrect compatibility information through generic bindings. If anything is unclear please ask and feel free to discuss this DT topic with Simon, Laurent, Geert and/or me. Thanks, / magnus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sh" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
On Friday 31 July 2015 11:23:04 Magnus Damm wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 4:59 AM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > > The "compatible" property text contradicts even the example given in the > > MMCIF binding document itself; moreover, the Renesas MMCIF driver only > > matches on the generic "compatible" string, and doesn't look for at SoC > > specific strings currently at all. Thus describe "renesas,sh-mmcif" > > string as mandatory and the others as optional. > > > > Fixes: b4c27763d749 ("mmc: sh_mmcif: Document DT bindings") > > Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> > > Thanks for your efforts trying to improve the DT binding documentation. > > > --- renesas.orig/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/renesas,mmcif.txt > > +++ renesas/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/renesas,mmcif.txt > > @@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ and the properties used by the MMCIF dev > > > > Required properties: > > -- compatible: must contain one of the following > > +- compatible: must contain "renesas,sh-mmcif"; may also contain one of > > > > + the following: > > - "renesas,mmcif-r8a7740" for the MMCIF found in r8a7740 SoCs > > - "renesas,mmcif-r8a7790" for the MMCIF found in r8a7790 SoCs > > - "renesas,mmcif-r8a7791" for the MMCIF found in r8a7791 SoCs > > > > - - "renesas,sh-mmcif" for the generic MMCIF > > As you know, each SoC contains a wide range of on-chip devices and the > MMCIF device is just one of them. Exactly how to manage the DT > bindings must be up to each maintainer and of course this needs to be > aligned with the SoC maintainer and SoC vendor with policies used for > SoC support and BSPs and whatnot. Changing policy like this for a > single device without at least discussing this with the SoC > maintainers does not help. > > For Renesas hardware we so far use both SoC part number and optionally > a generic binding as well. As commonly expected, the DT binding is > supposed to describe the hardware and if hardware devices are > compatible. Unless we use SoC part number in the compatible string > there is a risk that the SoC integrator simply copy-and-pastes generic > bindings "because it works" but this will result in DT binding based > on software compatibility and not hardware compatibility. Later when > the driver support is extended this may result in broken software due > to incorrect compatibility information through generic bindings. > > If anything is unclear please ask and feel free to discuss this DT > topic with Simon, Laurent, Geert and/or me. To clarify this, the current DT compatible strings policy for Renesas SoCs is to use a mandatory SoC-based string followed by a optional generic strings. Optional here refers to the fact that individual DT bindings can decide whether to use a generic string or not, based on hardware information. An IP core that has a different, incompatible implementation for each SoC it is present in can't make use of a generic compatible string. If a particular binding defines generic compatible strings those should be made mandatory by that binding. In the MMCIF case, I would propose wording it as - compatible: must contain one of the following - "renesas,mmcif-r8a7740" for the MMCIF found in r8a7740 SoCs - "renesas,mmcif-r8a7790" for the MMCIF found in r8a7790 SoCs - "renesas,mmcif-r8a7791" for the MMCIF found in r8a7791 SoCs followed by "renesas,sh-mmcif".
Hi Sergei, On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> wrote: > Hello. > > > On 7/31/2015 5:23 AM, Magnus Damm wrote: > >>> The "compatible" property text contradicts even the example given in the >>> MMCIF >>> binding document itself; moreover, the Renesas MMCIF driver only matches >>> on >>> the generic "compatible" string, and doesn't look for at SoC specific >>> strings >>> currently at all. Thus describe "renesas,sh-mmcif" string as mandatory >>> and the >>> others as optional. > > >>> Fixes: b4c27763d749 ("mmc: sh_mmcif: Document DT bindings") >>> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> > > >> Thanks for your efforts trying to improve the DT binding documentation. > > >>> --- renesas.orig/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/renesas,mmcif.txt >>> +++ renesas/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/renesas,mmcif.txt >>> @@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ and the properties used by the MMCIF dev >>> >>> Required properties: >>> >>> -- compatible: must contain one of the following >>> +- compatible: must contain "renesas,sh-mmcif"; may also contain one of >>> + the following: >>> - "renesas,mmcif-r8a7740" for the MMCIF found in r8a7740 SoCs >>> - "renesas,mmcif-r8a7790" for the MMCIF found in r8a7790 SoCs >>> - "renesas,mmcif-r8a7791" for the MMCIF found in r8a7791 SoCs >>> - - "renesas,sh-mmcif" for the generic MMCIF > > >> As you know, each SoC contains a wide range of on-chip devices and the >> MMCIF device is just one of them. Exactly how to manage the DT >> bindings must be up to each maintainer and of course this needs to be >> aligned with the SoC maintainer and SoC vendor with policies used for >> SoC support and BSPs and whatnot. Changing policy like this for a >> single device without at least discussing this with the SoC >> maintainers does not help. > > > I'm not changing the policy, I'm making the binding actually reflect the > driver reality (and even the example given in the binding). Adjusting the binding after driver implementation seems a bit reverse to me. The way I see it, first you make a DT binding describing the hardware. Then as second step, you make sure the device driver support the hardware and the DT binding. As third or second parallel step you integrate via a DT. If you are concerned about the order of the compatible strings, unless specified by the SoC vendor documentation it is in my opinion up to each driver maintainer and/or developer to judge if the hardware is compatible or not. So the development activity of determining if the devices are compatible shall result in a correct compat string order. I'm not so sure if it is required that this order is supposed to be documented in the DT binding. Being more clear does not hurt though. >> For Renesas hardware we so far use both SoC part number and optionally >> a generic binding as well. As commonly expected, the DT binding is >> supposed to describe the hardware and if hardware devices are >> compatible. Unless we use SoC part number in the compatible string >> there is a risk that the SoC integrator simply copy-and-pastes generic >> bindings "because it works" but this will result in DT binding based >> on software compatibility and not hardware compatibility. Later when >> the driver support is extended this may result in broken software due >> to incorrect compatibility information through generic bindings. > >> If anything is unclear please ask and feel free to discuss this DT >> topic with Simon, Laurent, Geert and/or me. > > I didn't quite understand what you're proposing instead. Making SoC based > strings mandatory? Changing the driver to look at the SoC based strings? I think Laurent describes it pretty well. I'm not sure why you feel that you need to change the driver though, so I wonder if there is some misunderstanding going on here... Please understand that all the compat strings included in the DT binding document not necessarily have to be used by the driver. But before merging DT integration code it seems customary that the DT binding needs to be documented. Thanks, / magnus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sh" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Index: renesas/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/renesas,mmcif.txt =================================================================== --- renesas.orig/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/renesas,mmcif.txt +++ renesas/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/renesas,mmcif.txt @@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ and the properties used by the MMCIF dev Required properties: -- compatible: must contain one of the following +- compatible: must contain "renesas,sh-mmcif"; may also contain one of + the following: - "renesas,mmcif-r8a7740" for the MMCIF found in r8a7740 SoCs - "renesas,mmcif-r8a7790" for the MMCIF found in r8a7790 SoCs - "renesas,mmcif-r8a7791" for the MMCIF found in r8a7791 SoCs - - "renesas,sh-mmcif" for the generic MMCIF - clocks: reference to the functional clock
The "compatible" property text contradicts even the example given in the MMCIF binding document itself; moreover, the Renesas MMCIF driver only matches on the generic "compatible" string, and doesn't look for at SoC specific strings currently at all. Thus describe "renesas,sh-mmcif" string as mandatory and the others as optional. Fixes: b4c27763d749 ("mmc: sh_mmcif: Document DT bindings") Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> --- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/renesas,mmcif.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sh" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html