On 08/08/2023 15:18, Md Danish Anwar wrote: > On 08/08/23 5:38 pm, Conor Dooley wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 04:30:43PM +0530, MD Danish Anwar wrote: >>> This series introduces Industrial Ethernet Peripheral (IEP) driver to >>> support timestamping of ethernet packets and thus support PTP and PPS >>> for PRU ICSSG ethernet ports. >>> >>> This series also adds 10M full duplex support for ICSSG ethernet driver. >>> >>> There are two IEP instances. IEP0 is used for packet timestamping while IEP1 >>> is used for 10M full duplex support. >>> >>> This is v2 of the series [v1]. It addresses comments made on [v1]. >>> This series is based on linux-next(#next-20230807). >>> >>> Changes from v1 to v2: >>> *) Addressed Simon's comment to fix reverse xmas tree declaration. Some APIs >>> in patch 3 and 4 were not following reverse xmas tree variable declaration. >>> Fixed it in this version. >>> *) Addressed Conor's comments and removed unsupported SoCs from compatible >>> comment in patch 1. >> >> I'm sorry I missed responding there before you sent v2, it was a bank >> holiday yesterday. I'm curious why you removed them, rather than just >> added them with a fallback to the ti,am654-icss-iep compatible, given >> your comment that "the same compatible currently works for all these >> 3 SoCs". > > I removed them as currently the driver is being upstreamed only for AM654x, > once I start up-streaming the ICSSG driver for AM64 and any other SoC. I will > add them here. If at that time we are still using same compatible, then I will > modify the comment otherwise add new compatible. > > As of now, I don't see the need of adding other SoCs in iep binding as IEP > driver up-streaming is only planned for AM654x as of now. But, is there any difference in IEP hardware/driver for the other SoCs? AFAIK the same IP is used on all SoCs. If there is no hardware/code change then we don't need to introduce a new compatible. The comment for all SoCs can already be there right from the start. -- cheers, -roger
