[RFC PATCH 1/2] usb: doc: Add bindings for ULPI platform driver

[kishon@ti.com (Kishon Vijay Abraham I)]

Hi,

On Sunday 11 October 2015 04:45 PM, punnaiah choudary kalluri wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 9:48 PM, Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:18:01AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 4:26 AM, Subbaraya Sundeep Bhatta
>>> <subbaraya.sundeep.bhatta@xilinx.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi Peter,
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Peter Chen [mailto:peter.chen at freescale.com]
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 2:41 PM
>>>>> To: Subbaraya Sundeep Bhatta
>>>>> Cc: balbi at ti.com; devicetree at vger.kernel.org; kishon at ti.com;
>>>>> gregkh at linuxfoundation.org; linux-usb at vger.kernel.org; linux-
>>>>> kernel at vger.kernel.org; Punnaiah Choudary Kalluri; Subbaraya Sundeep Bhatta;
>>>>> linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
>>>>> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] usb: doc: Add bindings for ULPI platform driver
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 06:24:01PM +0530, Subbaraya Sundeep Bhatta
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> This patch adds binding doc info for generic ULPI PHYs platform
>>>>>> driver.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Subbaraya Sundeep Bhatta <sbhatta@xilinx.com>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>  .../devicetree/bindings/usb/ulpi-platform-phy.txt  |   34
>>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>  1 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)  create mode 100644
>>>>>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/ulpi-platform-phy.txt
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git
>>>>>> a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/ulpi-platform-phy.txt
>>>>>> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/ulpi-platform-phy.txt
>>>>>> new file mode 100644
>>>>>> index 0000000..7b8cbb4
>>>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/ulpi-platform-phy.txt
>>>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
>>>>>> +Platform driver for generic ULPI PHYs
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +Required properties:
>>>>>> +- compatible               : Should be "ulpi-phy"
>>>>>> +- reg                      : Physical base address and size of the USB
>>>>>> +                     controller registers map to which this PHY
>>>>>> +                     is connected.
>>>>>> +- view-port                : Should contain viewport register offset of the
>>>>>> +                     USB controller to which this PHY is connected Optional
>>>>>> +properties:
>>>>>> +- drv-vbus         : required if turning VBUS on/off has to be driven
>>>>>> +                     by writing to PHY. This feature depends on board
>>>>>> +                     design.
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +Example:
>>>>>> +Below example shows the PHY binding for Chipidea USB controller which
>>>>>> +has ulpi viewport register at 0x0170
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +           usb_phy0: phy0 {
>>>>>> +                   compatible = "ulpi-phy";
>>>>>> +                   reg = <0xe0002000 0x1000>;
>>>>>> +                   view-port = <0x0170>;
>>>>>> +                   drv-vbus;
>>>>>> +           };
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +           usb0: usb at e0002000 {
>>>>>> +                        compatible = "chipidea,usb2";
>>>>>> +                        interrupt-parent = <&intc>;
>>>>>> +                        interrupts = <0 21 4>;
>>>>>> +                        reg = <0xe0002000 0x1000>;
>>>>>
>>>>> Although just call devm_ioremap twice for the same register region does not
>>>>> cause any errors, I am not sure if it will has other potential problems. Cc: arm
>>>>> list.
>>>>
>>>> Yes Peter I was also in doubt to call devm_ioremap twice for same register region.
>>>> devm_ioremap_resource complained hence modified to devm_ioremap. Thanks for
>>>> adding arm-list.
>>>
>>> Don't put overlapping resources in the DT. Having 2 drivers accessing
>>> the same registers is not a clean or safe design.
>>
>> thanks, saves me the trouble of saying the same thing.
>>
>> Bottom line, if devm_ioremap_resource() fails, you're wrong. Just fix
>> your driver and move on.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to move further?
> Chipidea controller provides ulpi view port register for accessing the
> usb phy registers. Now we want to add new driver for ulpi phy configuration
> and that obviously it need of ulpi view port register access. So, sharing the
> register space between these two drivers is necessary here.

Why not program ULPI the same way as DWC3 does?

Thanks
Kishon