Re: [RESEND PATCHv2 1/3] arm: socfpga: Set the SDMMC clock phase in system manager

[Dinh Nguyen <dinh.linux@gmail.com>]

On 10/15/13 2:47 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 October 2013, Dinh Nguyen wrote:
>>> 1 Create a "syscon" backend driver to control your "system manager", which
>>>     lets other drivers hook into it without calling a private API.
>> Yes, if you look at drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc-socfpga.c that is in the
>> mainline,
>> it is hooking into the "system manager" through "syscon". Is this what you
>> mean here?
> No, because you directly hook into the syscon driver, rather than using
> a clock driver as the middle-man, see steps 2 and 3 below.
>   
Ok, now I understand.
>> The problem is because of the SYSMGR_SDMMCGRP_CTRL_OFFSET define
>> in this file. This means the SD/MMC driver needs information that is
>> outside of its IP.
> Yes, this is not ideal because you don't really want that information
> in the sd/mmc driver. That driver should only know about the fact
> that it talks to a clock controller, not how it's implemented.
>
> 	Arnd
>
>>> 2 Create a trivial clock driver that is independent of your existing
>>>     clock driver and independent of the other drivers using the system
>>>     manager, by using syscon as the low-level interface.
>>> 3 Make the sdmmc driver use the normal clock API and link its clock to the
>>>     driver from step 2 in the device tree.
This makes sense for the SD/MMC driver, but do you think I can use the 
same approach for
other drivers that this system manager touches? i.e. The ethernet IP's 
PHY setting is controlled
by a register that is in the system manager as well.

I have submitted this patch for enabling ethernet. It is making use of 
the driver platform specific
driver calls to touch the system manager.

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-September/200173.html

Just wondering if that is right approach for the ethernet driver? If 
not, then I think I may have
to come up with a generic system manager driver so that it can be used 
for other IPs.

Thanks,
Dinh

>>>
>>> Is this what you have tried before?