Re: [PATCH 02/16] media: qcom: camss: csiphy-3ph: Remove redundant PHY init sequence control loop

[Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org>]

On 11/12/2024 14:07, Depeng Shao wrote:
> From: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org>
> 
> Adding a new CSIPHY init sequence using downstream as a reference prompted
> me to look at why we are splitting up the init sequence into chunks.
> 
> Right now we declare CSI PHY init sequences as an array of five equally
> sized writes with a hard-coded control loop to iterate through each of the
> five indexes. One bug in this model is that if you don't have an even
> number of writes, you can't init the PHY as you wish.
> 
> In downstream the original code has something of the character
> phy_init_seq[MAX_LANES][MAX_PARAMS] which in upstream we have translated
> into phy_init_seq[5][SOME_NUMBER_OF_EQUAL_WRITES];
> 
> What the code does is take a pointer to the first index of the
> r = &phy_init_seq[0][0]; and then literally does write(r, value); r++;
> 
> The controlling loop that hard-codes '5' in-lieu of MAX_LANES does no
> special sleep, fabric-coherence sync or even a printk() to justify its
> existence. Our compilers are optimising all of this away anyway so lets
> drop.
> 
> Reduce the array declaration down to one flat aggregate init and let the
> code just step through. As a happy side-effect we can then also handle
> odd-number writes as the number of elements in the init sequence will no
> longer have to be evenly divisible.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Depeng Shao <quic_depengs@quicinc.com>
> Reviewed-by: Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@quicinc.com>
> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir.zapolskiy@linaro.org>
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A new version of this patch is required to ensure 7280 is handled

https://git.codelinaro.org/bryan.odonoghue/kernel/-/commit/4c831fd58aa7629f994b5f4d8533b154a74d35cc

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