Re: [PATCH V3] PCI: rcar: Add the suspend/resume for pcie-rcar driver

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On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:08:52PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Bjorn,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 7:41 PM Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 10:55:21AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 9:57 PM Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > [+cc Vaibhav]
> > > >
> > > > Alternate less redundant subject:
> > > >
> > > >   PCI: rcar: Add suspend/resume support
> > >
> > > Note that there's both pcie-rcar.c (this driver, for R-Car Gen2 and Gen3
> > > PCIe) and pci-rcar-gen2.c (for R-Car Gen2 PCI).
> > > People tend to use the prefix "PCI: rcar: " for both :-(
> >
> > Yeah, that's pretty broken, thanks for pointing this out!
> >
> > For most drivers we use a chipset name ("keystone", "imx6", "tegra",
> > etc) as the changlog tag.  That's nice because it gives space for
> > multiple drivers from the same vendor, but I don't know anything
> > similarly specific for the R-Car drivers.
> >
> > pci-rcar-gen2.c seems to be for some sort of internal Conventional PCI
> 
> AFAIUI it's some internal PCI glue to the *HCI USB controller.
> 
> > bus?  The "gen2" is confusing because "Gen 2" is more commonly used
> > for PCIe than for Conventional PCI.
> 
> The "Gen2" applies to "R-Car", not to "PCI".

Wicked :) !

> > I would propose keeping "rcar" for the PCIe driver and using
> > "rcar-pci" for the Conventional PCI one, but the Conventional PCI one
> 
> (/me resists against bike-shedding)

I'd agree with Bjorn - I don't know, internal vs external seems
artificial. Certainly gen2 is misleading, it does not take much
to improve it.

> > (pci-rcar-gen2.c) seems pretty inactive.  The most recent commits are
> > from 2018, and they're trivial cleanups.  So I'm doubtful that anybody
> > will remember when the next change comes in.
> 
> I guess pci-rcar-gen2.c is simpler and more mature ;-)
> R-Car Gen2 SoCs have both (internal) PCI and PCIe, so the two drivers
> can be used together on the same hardware.

I'd remove gen2 to start with, you are better placed to know the
internals to come up with something significant.

Lorenzo



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