Re: [PATCH 1/2] mfd: syscon: Support physical regmap bus

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>]

On Fri, 17 Apr 2020, Baolin Wang wrote:

> Some platforms such as Spreadtrum platform, define a special method to
> update bits of the registers instead of reading and writing, which means
> we should use a physical regmap bus to define the reg_update_bits()
> operation instead of the MMIO regmap bus.
> 
> Thus add a new helper for the syscon driver to allow to register a physical
> regmap bus to support this new requirement.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang7@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mfd/syscon.c       | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
>  include/linux/mfd/syscon.h |  7 +++++++
>  2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/syscon.c b/drivers/mfd/syscon.c
> index 3a97816d0cba..92bfe87038ca 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/syscon.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/syscon.c
> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
>  
>  static struct platform_driver syscon_driver;
> +static struct regmap_bus *syscon_phy_regmap_bus;
>  
>  static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(syscon_list_slock);
>  static LIST_HEAD(syscon_list);
> @@ -106,14 +107,25 @@ static struct syscon *of_syscon_register(struct device_node *np, bool check_clk)
>  	syscon_config.val_bits = reg_io_width * 8;
>  	syscon_config.max_register = resource_size(&res) - reg_io_width;
>  
> -	regmap = regmap_init_mmio(NULL, base, &syscon_config);
> +	 /*
> +	  * The Spreadtrum syscon need register a real physical regmap bus
> +	  * with new atomic bits updating operation instead of using
> +	  * read-modify-write.
> +	  */
> +	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_SPRD) &&
> +	    of_device_is_compatible(np, "sprd,atomic-syscon") &&

Please find a more generic way of supporting your use-case.  This is a
generic driver, and as such I am vehemently against adding any sort of
vendor specific code in here.

> +	    syscon_phy_regmap_bus)
> +		regmap = regmap_init(NULL, syscon_phy_regmap_bus, base,
> +				     &syscon_config);
> +	else
> +		regmap = regmap_init_mmio(NULL, base, &syscon_config);

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Lee Jones [李琼斯]
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