On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 10:35:30AM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> writes: > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 06:46:36PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > >> +static int da8xx_ddrctl_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) > >> +{ > >> + const struct da8xx_ddrctl_config_knob *knob; > >> + const struct da8xx_ddrctl_setting *setting; > >> + u32 regprop[2], base, memsize, reg; > >> + struct device_node *node, *parent; > >> + void __iomem *ddrctl; > >> + const char *board; > >> + struct device *dev; > >> + int ret; > >> + > >> + dev = &pdev->dev; > >> + node = dev->of_node; > >> + > >> + /* Find the board name. */ > >> + for (parent = node; > >> + !of_node_is_root(parent); > >> + parent = of_get_parent(parent)); > >> + > >> + ret = of_property_read_string(parent, "compatible", &board); > >> + if (ret) { > >> + dev_err(dev, "unable to read the soc model\n"); > >> + return ret; > >> + } > > > > I can see that you want to expose sysfs knobs for this, but is it really > > necessary to match boards like this? It's very fragile, and commits us > > to maintaining a database of board data (i.e. a board file). > > > > I am very much not keen on that. > > The original proposal[1] was to create DT properties reflecting the > various knobs in the DDR Controller, but that was frowned upon since > that was more HW configuration than hardware description. > > That resulted in this approach which keeps the HW configuration values > in the driver, and selectable based on DT compatible. > > IMO, neither aproach is pretty. From a DT maintainer perspective, can > you comment on your preference? >From my PoV, it really depends on *why* we need this. What does the tuning gain us, and is it specific to a given use-case? Thanks, Mark. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html