From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 00:58:57 -0700 From: Tony Lindgren To: Roger Quadros Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/36] mtd: nand: omap: Move IRQ handling from GPMC to NAND driver Message-ID: <20140613075856.GQ17845@atomide.com> References: <1402477001-31132-1-git-send-email-rogerq@ti.com> <1402477001-31132-6-git-send-email-rogerq@ti.com> <20140613071820.GI17845@atomide.com> <539AAA8C.2070709@ti.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <539AAA8C.2070709@ti.com> Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, nsekhar@ti.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kyungmin.park@samsung.com, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, pekon@ti.com, ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com, javier@dowhile0.org, computersforpeace@gmail.com, dwmw2@infradead.org List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , * Roger Quadros [140613 00:40]: > On 06/13/2014 10:18 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > * Roger Quadros [140611 01:58]: > >> Since the Interrupt Events are used only by the NAND driver, > >> there is no point in managing the Interrupt registers > >> in the GPMC driver and complicating it with irqchip modeling. > >> > >> Let's manage the interrupt registers directly in the NAND driver > >> and get rid of irqchip model from GPMC driver. > >> > >> Get rid of IRQ commands and unused commands from gpmc_configure() in > >> the GPMC driver. > > > > This seems like a step backward to me. The GPMC interrupt enable > > register can do edge detection on the wait pins, how is that > > limited to NAND? > > OK. But wait pin edge detection was not yet being used and I couldn't > think of how it would ever be used. Any ideas? Maybe to wake-up the system on bus activity or something? > > Further, let's not start mixing GPMC hardware module register > > access with the NAND driver register access. They can be clocked > > separately. And bugs in the NAND driver can cause issues in other > > GPMC using drivers. > > I understood that NAND controller is integrated into the GPMC module and they are clocked > the same. Not sure why the hardware designers would keep the registers so closely knit. Yeah. Maybe regmap could provide some abstraction to the the NAND registers. > FYI. memory/ti-amif.c and mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c share the AMIF register space in the > same way. I thought it'd be nice to be consistent across TI drivers. Probably they did not yet learn the problems caused by it :) Regards, Tony