On 10 May 2017 at 21:22, Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Ulf, > > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 6 May 2017 at 19:18, Martin Blumenstingl >> <martin.blumenstingl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> This is the successor to Carlo Caione's "Add support for Amlogic Meson >>> MMC driver" series (v5) from [0]. >>> >>> I would like you to specifically review: >>> - whether I've (ab)used the MMC framework properly (as this is my first >>> "larger" contribution to an MMC driver) >> >> I take a look soonish. > thank you! > >>> - I think I have improved the locking compared to Carlo's version, >>> however I'd still like feedback on whether this looks sane now or if I >>> can improve that even further >>> >>> (notable) changes since Carlo's latest version are: >>> - renamed the driver to meson-mx-sdio (Amlogic's reference kernel calls >>> the driver "aml_sdio" as there is a second MMC controller in these SoCs >>> which they call the "SDHC controller"). do the same with our driver to >> >> I don't like to renaming drivers, just because there are a reference >> kernel using a different name. >> >> What's is really the difference between controllers? Why do they have >> two variants? > the driver from this thread is for the "SDSC/SDHC/SDXC card and SDIO > interface with 1-bit and 4-bit data bus width supporting spec version > 2.x/3.x/4.x DS/HS modes up to UHS-I SDR50" (quote taken from the S805 > datasheet: [0]) > the "other" controller is an "eMMC and MMC card interface with > 1/4/8-bit data bus width supporting spec version 4.4x/4.5x HS200 (up > to 100MHz clock), compatible with standard iNAND interface" (again, > quote taken from the S805 datasheet: [0]) > >> >> Can they be managed by the same driver? >> >>> avoid confusion once we add support for the second controller (which uses >>> a completely different register layout) >> >> Besides that, do they behave differently in some other way? > both drivers/controllers have a totally different register layout - I > don't see any way how they both could be handled by one driver (the > registers for the controllers from this series are not part of the > documentation, but the registers from the 8-bit capable controller > are, see page 76 and following from the S805 datasheet: [0]) Okay, I am starting to understand. :-) The spec in section 13 describes a controller supporting "MMC/SD/SDIO" cards. However, there is yet another controller which @subject series implement support for. You don't happen to have a public datasheet for this controller as well? If not, never mind. Then, meson actually have three different MMC/SD/SDIO controllers, the one in the S805 spec, the one supported by the recently up-streamed meson-gx-mmc.c driver - and the one being supported in this series. Right? And all of them are completely separate and non-compatible? > >>> - add support for the internal "mux" in this MMC controller (which allows >>> connecting up to three devices to the the controller - at the cost of >>> performance though since the controller can only process one request at >>> a time). The driver registers a new device for each sub-node, which is >>> then fed into the MMC framework to allow per-slot configuration using >>> devicetree (see the example in the documentation) >> >> Unless there really is deployment for more than one slot on some >> boards/SoCs, I would strongly suggest to *not* implement this. >> >> Simply because of overhead and introduced complexity to the driver. > actually there are lots of devices out there which need to use two slots: > as mentioned above the S805 (Meson8b) SoC has two MMC controllers: > - one which is typically used for the SD card and the SDIO wireless > interface (the driver from this series handles this) > - the other one is typically connects to eMMC flash (as it supports > 8-bit bus width - this controller is not related to the driver from > this series) Okay. > > there are boards out there which use NAND flash instead of eMMC, but > the majority of the consumer devices (based on Amlogic SoCs) out there > uses eMMC flash. > we (unfortunately) have to support the internal mux since there are > three MMC devices (SD card, SDIO wifi and eMMC) but only two > controllers. I see. > > I agree with you that it adds extra complexity to the driver. I tried > to keep it as simple as possible - but I think we cannot remove it > (without "losing" access to one MMC devices on most boards) Of course. > >>> - use the common clock framework internally for managing the MMC clock >>> (there is a fixed-factor clock in the controller which takes clk81 as >>> input and divides it's clock by two and a divider clock which takes >>> the result from the fixed-factor clock as input) >>> - support the regulators provided by the MMC framework >>> - support for GPIO-based card-detection and read-only-detection through >>> the MMC framework >>> - use of the <linux/bitfield.h> FIELD_PREP and FIELD_GET macros where it >>> make sense (and thus the code easier to read) >>> - re-worked locking (based on the locking in dw_mmc as that also provides >>> multiple "MMC slots") >> >> Lots of changes! >> >> Before even start to review (or someone else), you really need to make >> this review-able. >> >> So, please, one change per patch - and make sure to write good >> changelogs. Then I can start to review. > from the mainline tree's perspective this is a new driver: Yes, I get it now. I first thought this series was related to the recently up-streamed meson-gx-mmc.c driver. Apologize for my ignorance. > Carlo (the original author) initially sent this driver for review more > than 14 months ago. unfortunately it was never merged since you > spotted some issues while reviewing that code, see [1]. Yes, I recall that now. > I would have sent smaller patches for a driver which is already in mainline. Right. > > I also wanted to avoid extra complexity for the internal mux if it was > added later on (if we want to avoid breaking devicetree backwards > compatibility then the driver would have to support both: parsing from > the mmc node directly and parsing child "slot" nodes). we won't have > to change the DT bindings when the first version that will be > mainlined already has support for the mux > > please let me know if there's anything I can do to make the code > easier to review. No worries, let me have a look as is! [...] Kind regards Uffe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
