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From: Sylvain Munaut <tnt@246tNt•com>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell•net>
Cc: spi-devel-general@lists•sourceforge.net,
	Dragos Carp <dragos.carp@toptica•com>,
	Domen Puncer <domen@coderock•org>,
	linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mpc52xx_psc_spi: fix it for CONFIG_PPC_MERGE
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 18:34:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <464B329E.8030600@246tNt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705160911.55867.david-b@pacbell.net>

David Brownell wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 May 2007, Sylvain Munaut wrote:
>   
>> Well, this comment is not about the patch but about the driver it self,
>> I didn't see it before today.
>>     
>
> It merged earlier in the 2.6.22 cycle.  If you don't have criticisms
> about the patch itself, I'll forward it for merging after I get at
> least an ack from Dragos.
>   
Yes, I saw when looking at the spi-devl archive. Would have been nice if the
author though of cc-ing the ppc-embedded list ;)

The patch looks ok to me (and needed actually since as Domen pointed
out, 52xx
has been replaced by 5200 in the device tree).
And cell-index has been added to know the psc id without dirty tricks.

>>  - MPC52xx_PA(MPC52xx_PSCx_OFFSET(...)) ??? You should get that from the
>> resource of the platform_device. This macro is just there for early
>> console stuff.
>>     
>
> That PPC_MERGE stuff does look messy.
>   
Yes, trying to support both in a driver is really not pretty.
Once we can finally get rid of it I'll submit a patch to clear that out.

>>  - You do read/write/modify operation on CDM shared register
>> (clk_enables) from a driver, you should have added something in common
>> 52xx code to do theses with proper locking.
>>  - You can get f_system from the device tree instead of just assuming
>> it's 512 MHz. It probably need to be done the same way it's done to find
>> ipb_freq.
>>  - Would have been nice to be able to somehow configure MCLK rather than
>> #define it
>>     
>
> Best to use <linux/clk.h> for all of those, but it seems powerpc/ppc
> don't support those interfaces yet ... is there maybe a plan for
> resolving that issue?
>   
Mmm, I wasn't aware of that interface, I'll look into that. Thanks.


    Sylvain

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-16 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-16  7:37 [PATCH] mpc52xx_psc_spi: fix it for CONFIG_PPC_MERGE Domen Puncer
2007-05-16  8:19 ` Sylvain Munaut
2007-05-16 16:11   ` David Brownell
2007-05-16 16:34     ` Sylvain Munaut [this message]
2007-05-18  7:44       ` Dragos Carp
2007-05-25  8:43   ` [RFC 1/3] " Domen Puncer
2007-05-25 14:50     ` Sylvain Munaut
2007-05-25 17:02       ` Grant Likely
2007-05-25  8:45   ` [RFC 2/3] " Domen Puncer
2007-05-25  8:47   ` [RFC 3/3] " Domen Puncer
2007-05-25 16:34     ` David Brownell
2007-05-25 18:00       ` Domen Puncer
2007-05-21  7:31 ` Dragos Carp

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