Re: [PATCH RESEND V3 2/2] mmc: sdhci-brcmstb: Add driver for Broadcom BRCMSTB SoCs

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On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 7:48 PM, Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Al Cooper <alcooperx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Al Cooper <alcooperx@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  .../devicetree/bindings/mmc/sdhci-brcmstb.txt      |  40 ++++++
>>  MAINTAINERS                                        |   7 +
>>  drivers/mmc/host/Kconfig                           |  11 ++
>>  drivers/mmc/host/Makefile                          |   1 +
>>  drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-brcmstb.c                   | 154 +++++++++++++++++++++
>>  5 files changed, 213 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/sdhci-brcmstb.txt
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-brcmstb.c
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/sdhci-brcmstb.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/sdhci-brcmstb.txt
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..f8dd6a9d
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/sdhci-brcmstb.txt
>> @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
>> +* BROADCOM BRCMSTB/BMIPS SDHCI Controller
>> +
>> +This file documents differences between the core properties in mmc.txt
>> +and the properties used by the sdhci-brcmstb driver.
>> +
>> +Required properties:
>> +- compatible: "brcm,sdhci-brcmstb"
>
> For many of the other SoC drivers, such as drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm*,
> we've used the compatible string and/or driver name to denote the
> oldest SoC that is compatible with the driver.  This helps to indicate
> that the driver is not compatible with previous versions of the core.
> For instance, the driver you are submitting would be slightly broken
> on the BCM7468/BCM7208 STB chips, and horrifically broken on BCM7630
> (which admittedly isn't quite "brcmstb" but uses some of the same
> drivers).  I assume you don't want to target those ancient parts.
>
> When the hardware block changes frequently, we've gone as far as
> creating a different compatible string for each variant.  For
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/brcm,bcmgenet.txt we encoded the
> hardware generation number in the compatible string.

Something like "brcm,bcm7425-sdhci"?

>
> [snip]
>
>> +static int sdhci_brcmstb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> +{
>> +       struct device_node *dn = pdev->dev.of_node;
>> +       struct sdhci_host *host;
>> +       struct sdhci_pltfm_host *pltfm_host;
>> +       struct clk *clk;
>> +       int res;
>> +
>> +       clk = of_clk_get_by_name(dn, "sw_sdio");
>> +       if (IS_ERR(clk)) {
>> +               dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Clock not found in Device Tree\n");
>> +               clk = NULL;
>
> Last time I worked on these chips, they defaulted to "all clocks
> enabled" in the absence of a clk driver.
>
> So, if this is not treated as a fatal condition, maybe it would be
> better to downgrade it to dev_warn or dev_info.

Good point, I'll switch it to dev_warn.

Al
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