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From: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@axis•com>
To: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@st•com>,
	Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st•com>
Cc: <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: stmmac DT property snps,axi_all
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 10:20:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dc145c32-cb67-4bcb-e8b7-059387d5a0ac@axis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <120aca00-02a8-3d88-7aad-a21d239aafb2@st.com>

On 12/08/2016 02:36 PM, Alexandre Torgue wrote:
> Hi Niklas,
>
> On 12/05/2016 05:18 PM, Niklas Cassel wrote:
>> Hello Giuseppe
>>
>>
>> I'm trying to figure out what snps,axi_all is supposed to represent.
>>
>> It appears that the value is saved, but never used in the code.
>>
>> Looking at the register specification, I'm guessing that it represents
>> Address-Aligned Beats, but there is already the property snps,aal
>> for that.
>
> IMO, it is not useful. Indeed AXI_AAL is a read only bit (in AXI bus mode register) and reflects the aal bit in DMA bus register.
> As you know we use "snps,aal" to set aal bit in DMA bus register.
> So "snps,axi_all" entry seems useless. Let's see with Peppe.

Ok, I see. GMAC and GMAC4 is different here.

For GMAC4 AAL only exists in DMA_SYS_BUS_MODE.
It's not reflected anywhere else.

The code is correct in the driver.

If snps,axi_all is just created for a read-only register,
and it is currently never used in the code,
while we have snps,aal, which is correct and works,
I guess it should be ok to remove snps,axi_all.

I can cook up a patch.

>
> Regards
> Alex
>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Niklas
>>

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-09  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-05 16:18 stmmac DT property snps,axi_all Niklas Cassel
2016-12-08 13:36 ` Alexandre Torgue
2016-12-09  9:20   ` Niklas Cassel [this message]
2016-12-09  9:53     ` Niklas Cassel
2016-12-09 16:06       ` Alexandre Torgue
2016-12-12 13:16         ` Giuseppe CAVALLARO
2016-12-12 14:18       ` Giuseppe CAVALLARO
2016-12-13  6:47         ` Giuseppe CAVALLARO
2016-12-13  8:26           ` Niklas Cassel
2016-12-13  8:46             ` Giuseppe CAVALLARO

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