Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] dt-bindings: hwinfo: Add mtk-socinfo driver

[Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 10:47:53AM +0200, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
> Il 17/09/23 10:26, Krzysztof Kozlowski ha scritto:
> > On 15/09/2023 17:26, William-tw Lin wrote:
> > > dt-binding documentation for mtk-socinfo driver.
> > 
> > Here and in subject, drop driver and instead descrbe hardware.
> > 
> > > mtk-socinfo driver provides SoC-related information.
> > > Such information includes manufacturer information, SoC name,
> > > SoC segment name, and SoC marketing name.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: William-tw Lin <william-tw.lin@mediatek.com>
> > > ---
> > >   .../bindings/hwinfo/mtk-socinfo.yaml          | 48 +++++++++++++++++++
> > >   1 file changed, 48 insertions(+)
> > >   create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwinfo/mtk-socinfo.yaml
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwinfo/mtk-socinfo.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwinfo/mtk-socinfo.yaml
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 000000000000..74f03f1dc404
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwinfo/mtk-socinfo.yaml
> > 
> > Nothing improved.
> > 
> > This is a friendly reminder during the review process.
> > 
> > It seems my previous comments were not fully addressed. Maybe my
> > feedback got lost between the quotes, maybe you just forgot to apply it.
> > Please go back to the previous discussion and either implement all
> > requested changes or keep discussing them.
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > 
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
> > > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
> > > +%YAML 1.2
> > > +---
> > > +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/hwinfo/mtk-socinfo.yaml#
> > > +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> > > +
> > > +title: MediaTek SoC ChipID
> > > +
> > > +maintainers:
> > > +  - William Lin <william-tw.lin@mediatek.com>
> > > +  - Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>
> > > +  - Kevin Hilman <khilman@kernel.org>
> > > +  - AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>
> > > +
> > > +description:
> > > +  MediaTek SoCs store various product information in eFuses, including
> > > +  Chip ID and Revision fields, usable to identify the manufacturer,
> > > +  SoC version, plus segment and marketing names.
> > > +
> > > +properties:
> > > +  compatible:
> > > +    const: mediatek,socinfo
> > 
> > What happened to compatibles? No, this is just wrong and no explained.
> > You ignored other comments as well. Really, that's not the way to go.
> > 
> 
> Practically, having different compatibles for each SoC is not needed, as
> the only thing that changes between SoCs is the eFuse(s) that you read to
> get the information - and that's all.
> 
> So ... we either use this driver with devicetree, giving it the right eFuses
> to read from, or we duplicate the mtk-efuse driver, or we statically assign
> the eFuses in the driver itself and we set compatibles like
> "mediatek,mt8195-socinfo" to select that... ideas?

So this one is just a virtual device to instantiate a driver and there 
is no socinfo hw block? If so, that's definitely a NAK. Either 
instantiate your socinfo driver from the efuse driver or register as a 
socinfo provider in it.

Rob