RE: [PATCH v6 1/2] dt: bindings: add MARVELL's sd8xxx wireless device

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Hi Rob,

Thanks for the review.

> From: Rob Herring [mailto:robh@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 7:46 PM
> To: Amitkumar Karwar
> Cc: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Cathy Luo; Nishant Sarmukadam;
> devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Wei-Ning Huang; Xinming Hu
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] dt: bindings: add MARVELL's sd8xxx wireless
> device
> 
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 8:19 AM, Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > From: Xinming Hu <huxm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Add device tree binding documentation for MARVELL's sd8xxx
> > (sd8897 and sd8997) wlan chip.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Xinming Hu <huxm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Listing changelist for both 1/2 and 2/2 patches
> > v3: Don't update adapter->dt_node if mwifiex_plt_dev is NULL
> >
> > v4: a)Corrected the 'name' and 'compatible' property names.(Arnd
> Bergmann and Rob
> >     Herring)
> >     b)Patch description wraped in 72 columns(Rob Herring)
> >     c)Moved DT binding file to bindings/net/wireless/(Rob Herring)
> >     d)Renamed "mwifiex,chip-gpio" to "marvell,wakeup-gpios"(Rob
> Herring/
> >     Arnd Bergmann)
> >     e)Replaced #ifdef with __maybe_unused(Arnd Bergmann)
> >
> > v5: a)Removed wildcards from compatible string(Arnd Bergmann)
> >     b)Prepared single patch for all binding changes(Rob Herring)
> >     c)Specified our node as a subnode of SDIO controller. With this
> approach, we
> >     don't need to register new platform driver. (Rob herring)
> >
> > v6: a)List out the specific property names for marvell,caldata* and
> size of the data(Rob Herring)
> >     b)Use sdio function number for both the unit address and reg(Rob
> > Herring)
> > ---
> >  .../bindings/net/wireless/marvell-sd8xxx.txt       | 63
> ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 63 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644
> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/marvell-sd8xxx.txt
> >
> > diff --git
> > a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/marvell-sd8xxx.txt
> > b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/marvell-sd8xxx.txt
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..337fed4
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/marvell-sd8xxx.tx
> > +++ t
> > @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
> > +Marvell 8897/8997 (sd8897/sd8997) SDIO devices
> > +------
> > +
> > +This node provides properties for controlling the marvell sdio
> wireless device.
> > +The node is expected to be specified as a child node to the SDIO
> > +controller that connects the device to the system.
> > +
> > +Required properties:
> > +
> > +  - compatible : should be one of the following:
> > +       * "marvell,sd8897"
> > +       * "marvell,sd8997"
> > +
> > +Optional properties:
> > +
> > +  - marvell,caldata* : A series of properties with marvell,caldata
> prefix,
> > +                     represent calibration data downloaded to the
> device during
> > +                     initialization. This is an array of unsigned
> values.
> 
> unsigned 8-bit values...
> 
> > +                     the properties should follow below property name
> and
> > +                     corresponding array length:
> > +       "marvell,caldata_00_txpwrlimit_2g_cfg_set" (length = 566).
> > +       "marvell,caldata_00_txpwrlimit_5g_cfg_set_sub0" (length =
> 502).
> > +       "marvell,caldata_00_txpwrlimit_5g_cfg_set_sub1" (length =
> 688).
> > +       "marvell,caldata_00_txpwrlimit_5g_cfg_set_sub2" (length =
> 750).
> > +       "marvell,caldata_00_txpwrlimit_5g_cfg_set_sub3" (length =
> 502).
> 
> The 00 and cfg_set seem pretty pointless, and '-' is preferred over '_'.
> So:
> 
> marvell,caldata-txpwrlimit-5g-sub3
> 
> > +  - marvell,wakeup-pin : 'wakeuppin' is a wakeup pin number of wifi
> > + chip which will
> 
> Drop "wakeuppin is"
> 
> > +                     be configured to firmware. firmware will wakeup
> host side use
> > +                     the pin during suspend/resume stage.
> > +  - interrupt-parent: phandle of the parent interrupt controller
> > +  - interrupts : interrupt pin number to the cpu. driver will request
> an irq based on
> > +                this interrupt number. during system suspend, the irq
> will be enabled
> > +                as system wakeup source, so that the wifi chip can
> > + wakeup host
> 
> You need to use the wakeup-source binding here (bindings/power/wakeup-
> source.txt). Probably on the BT binding too?

We did some experiments and tried to explore this option. It seems to be specific to runtime power management.
We don't use runtime PM for our device. We are interested in system suspend and wakeup (upon changing the IRQ status)
I will submit updated version addressing other review comments.

Regards,
Amitkumar

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