Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] dt-bindings: hwinfo: Add mtk-socinfo driver

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On 18/09/2023 10:47, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno wrote:
> Il 17/09/23 10:26, Krzysztof Kozlowski ha scritto:
>> On 15/09/2023 17:26, William-tw Lin wrote:
>>> dt-binding documentation for mtk-socinfo driver.
>>
>> Here and in subject, drop driver and instead descrbe hardware.
>>
>>> mtk-socinfo driver provides SoC-related information.
>>> Such information includes manufacturer information, SoC name,
>>> SoC segment name, and SoC marketing name.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: William-tw Lin <william-tw.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>   .../bindings/hwinfo/mtk-socinfo.yaml          | 48 +++++++++++++++++++
>>>   1 file changed, 48 insertions(+)
>>>   create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwinfo/mtk-socinfo.yaml
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwinfo/mtk-socinfo.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwinfo/mtk-socinfo.yaml
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 000000000000..74f03f1dc404
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwinfo/mtk-socinfo.yaml
>>
>> Nothing improved.
>>
>> This is a friendly reminder during the review process.
>>
>> It seems my previous comments were not fully addressed. Maybe my
>> feedback got lost between the quotes, maybe you just forgot to apply it.
>> Please go back to the previous discussion and either implement all
>> requested changes or keep discussing them.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
>>> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
>>> +%YAML 1.2
>>> +---
>>> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/hwinfo/mtk-socinfo.yaml#
>>> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
>>> +
>>> +title: MediaTek SoC ChipID
>>> +
>>> +maintainers:
>>> +  - William Lin <william-tw.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> +  - Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> +  - Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> +  - AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> +
>>> +description:
>>> +  MediaTek SoCs store various product information in eFuses, including
>>> +  Chip ID and Revision fields, usable to identify the manufacturer,
>>> +  SoC version, plus segment and marketing names.
>>> +
>>> +properties:
>>> +  compatible:
>>> +    const: mediatek,socinfo
>>
>> What happened to compatibles? No, this is just wrong and no explained.
>> You ignored other comments as well. Really, that's not the way to go.
>>
> 
> Practically, having different compatibles for each SoC is not needed, as
> the only thing that changes between SoCs is the eFuse(s) that you read to
> get the information - and that's all.


And how do you guarantee that no future SoC will have any difference?
How can you even predict it?

> 
> So ... we either use this driver with devicetree, giving it the right eFuses

I am talking about bindings, no driver.

> to read from, or we duplicate the mtk-efuse driver, or we statically assign
> the eFuses in the driver itself and we set compatibles like
> "mediatek,mt8195-socinfo" to select that... ideas?

Device specific compatibles followed by fallback, just like for every
other review coming from me.

Best regards,
Krzysztof





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