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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 00/11] i2c: designeware: Add Baikal-T1 System I2C support
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 07:08:47PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 06:30:35PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> > Jarkko, Wolfram, the merge window is upon us, please review/merge in/whatever
> > the patchset.
> >
> > Initially this has been a small patchset which embedded the Baikal-T1
> > System I2C support into the DW APB I2C driver as is by using a simplest
> > way. After a short discussion with Andy we decided to implement what he
> > suggested (introduce regmap-based accessors and create a glue driver) and
> > even more than that to provide some cleanups of the code. So here is what
> > this patchset consists of.
> >
> > First of all we've found out that current implementation of scripts/dtc
> > didn't support i2c dt nodes with 10bit and slave flags set in the
> > reg property. You'll see an error if you try to dt_binding_check it.
> > So the very first patch fixes the problem by adding these flags support
> > into the check_i2c_bus_reg() method.
> >
> > Traditionally we converted the plain text-based DT binding to the DT schema
> > and added Baikal-T1 System I2C device support there. This required to mark
> > the reg property redundant for Baikal-T1 I2C since its reg-space is
> > indirectly accessed by means of the System Controller cmd/read/write
> > registers.
> >
> > Then as Andy suggested we replaced the Synopsys DW APB I2C common driver
> > registers IO accessors into the regmap API methods. This doesn't change
> > the code logic much, though in two places we managed to replace some bulky
> > peaces of code with a ready-to-use regmap methods.
> >
> > Additionally before adding the glue layer API we initiated a set of cleanups:
> > - Define components of the multi-object drivers (like i2c-designware-core.o
> > and i2c-designware-paltform.o) with using `-y` suffixed makefile
> > variables instead of `-objs` suffixed one. This is encouraged by
> > Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst text since `-objs` is supposed to be used
> > to build host programs.
> > - Make DW I2C slave driver depended on the DW I2C core code instead of the
> > platform one, which it really is.
> > - Move Intel Baytrail semaphore feature to the platform if-clause of the
> > kernel config.
> >
> > After this we finally can introduce the glue layer API for the DW APB I2C
> > platform driver. So there are three methods exported from the driver:
> > i2c_dw_plat_setup(), i2c_dw_plat_clear(), &i2c_dw_plat_dev_pm_ops to
> > setup, cleanup and add PM operations to the glue driven I2C device. Before
> > setting the platform DW I2C device up the glue probe code is supposed to
> > create an instance of DW I2C device generic object and pre-initialize
> > its `struct device` pointer together with optional platform-specific
> > flags. In addition to that we converted the MSCC Ocelot SoC I2C specific
> > code into the glue layer seeing it's really too specific and, which is more
> > important, isn't that complicated so we could unpin it without much of
> > worrying to break something.
> >
> > Meanwhile we discovered that MODEL_CHERRYTRAIL and MODEL_MASK actually
> > were no longer used in the code. MODEL_MSCC flag has been discarded since
> > the MSCC Ocelot I2C code conversion to the glue driver. So now we can get
> > rid of all the MODEL-specific flags.
> >
> > Finally we introduced a glue driver with Baikal-T1 System I2C device
> > support. The driver probe tries to find a syscon regmap, creates the DW
> > APB I2C regmap based on it and passes it further to the DW I2C device
> > descriptor. Then it does normal DW APB I2C platform setup by calling a
> > generic setup method. Cleanup is straightforward. It's just calling a
> > generic DW APB I2C clean method.
>
> Thank you for an update.
>
> > This patchset is rebased and tested on the i2c/for-next (5.7-rc7):
>
> Hmm...
>
> > base-commit: 228f95c14949 ("Merge remote-tracking branch 'spi/for-5.8' into spi-next")
>
> ...this is strange.

Yeah, my mistake. It should have been:
base-commit: 2a41d0f91443 ("Merge branch 'i2c/for-5.8' into i2c/for-next")

-Sergey

>
> > Changelog v5:
> > - Replace or-assignment with just assignment operator when getting
> > the quirk flags.
> > - Keep alphabetical order of the include statements.
> > - Discard explicit u16-type cast in the dw_reg_write_word() method.
>
> Patches 8 and 11 have been commented solely due to previous comments for
> patches 6 and 7, which I think should be addressed.
>
> --
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko
>
>

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