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From: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
To: "David E. Box" <david.e.box@linux.intel.com>
Cc: wsa@the-dreams.de, jdelvare@suse.de, arnd@arndb.de,
	dianders@chromium.org, u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de,
	laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com,
	boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com, maxime.coquelin@st.com,
	andrew@lunn.ch, sjg@chromium.org, markus.mayer@linaro.org,
	ch.naveen@samsung.com, jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com,
	max.schwarz@online.de, mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com,
	skuribay@pobox.com, Romain.Baeriswyl@abilis.com,
	wenkai.du@intel.com, chiau.ee.chew@intel.com,
	christian.ruppert@abilis.com, alan@linux.intel.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] i2c-designware: Add Intel Baytrail PMIC I2C bus support
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 21:00:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140923190057.GN15315@lukather> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1411497626-7984-1-git-send-email-david.e.box@linux.intel.com>

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Hi David,

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:40:26AM -0700, David E. Box wrote:
> This patch implements an I2C bus sharing mechanism between the host and platform
> hardware on select Intel BayTrail SoC platforms using the X-Powers AXP288 PMIC.
> 
> On these platforms access to the PMIC must be shared with platform hardware. The
> hardware unit assumes full control of the I2C bus and the host must request
> access through a special semaphore. Hardware control of the bus also makes it
> necessary to disable runtime pm to avoid interfering with hardware transactions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David E. Box <david.e.box@linux.intel.com>

Sorry for stepping in like this without really knowing your platform,
but wouldn't using the hwspinlock framework make more sense than
hardcoding your own internal functions here?

Thanks,
Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-23 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-12 17:36 [PATCH] i2c-designware: Intel BayTrail PMIC I2C bus support David E. Box
2014-09-15  6:57 ` Maxime Coquelin
2014-09-15 16:55   ` David E. Box
2014-09-16  9:44 ` Mika Westerberg
2014-09-16 10:53   ` Jacob Pan
2014-09-16 10:58     ` Mika Westerberg
2014-09-17  4:01   ` Li, Aubrey
2014-09-17 11:02 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-23 18:40 ` [PATCH V2] i2c-designware: Add Intel Baytrail " David E. Box
2014-09-23 19:00   ` Maxime Ripard [this message]
2014-09-23 19:58     ` David E. Box
2014-09-25  9:47       ` Maxime Ripard
     [not found]         ` <20141007191420.GA25126@pathfinder>
2014-10-09 12:36           ` Maxime Ripard
2014-11-11 11:32   ` Wolfram Sang
2014-11-11 17:11     ` David E. Box
2014-11-11 11:50   ` Mika Westerberg
2014-12-02  0:09   ` [PATCH V3 0/2] i2c-designware: Baytrail bus locking driver David E. Box
2014-12-02  0:09     ` [PATCH V3 1/2] i2c-designware: Add i2c bus locking support David E. Box
2014-12-03 16:01       ` Mika Westerberg
2014-12-04 18:49         ` David E. Box
2014-12-04  7:59       ` Jarkko Nikula
2014-12-04 18:42         ` David E. Box
2015-01-13  9:48           ` Wolfram Sang
2015-01-14 18:15             ` David E. Box
2014-12-02  0:09     ` [PATCH V3 2/2] i2c-designware: Add Intel Baytrail PMIC I2C bus support David E. Box
2014-12-03 16:10       ` Mika Westerberg
2014-12-04 19:11         ` David E. Box
2014-12-06  3:51     ` [PATCH V3 0/2] i2c-designware: Baytrail bus locking driver Shinya Kuribayashi
2015-01-15  9:12     ` [PATCH V4 0/2] i2c-designware: Add Intel Baytrail pmic i2c bus support David E. Box
2015-01-26 11:27       ` Wolfram Sang
2015-01-15  9:12     ` [PATCH V4 1/2] i2c-designware: Add i2c bus locking support David E. Box
2015-01-22 14:22       ` Mika Westerberg
2015-01-15  9:12     ` [PATCH V4 2/2] i2c-designware: Add Intel Baytrail PMIC I2C bus support David E. Box
2015-01-22 14:28       ` Mika Westerberg
2015-01-22 20:48         ` David E. Box
2015-01-23  9:32           ` Mika Westerberg
2015-01-23 14:18       ` Wolfram Sang

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