Hi Miquel,
On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 9:32 AM Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on Mon, 11 Apr 2022 17:09:50 +0200:
> > On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 10:16 AM Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx wrote on Wed, 06 Apr 2022 17:45:09 -0700:
> > > > Quoting Miquel Raynal (2022-04-06 09:18:47)
> > > > > Here is a first series bringing DMA support to RZN1 platforms. Soon a
> > > > > second series will come with changes made to the UART controller
> > > > > driver, in order to interact with the RZN1 DMA controller.
> > > > >
> > > > > Stephen acked the sysctrl patch (in the clk driver) but somehow I feel
> > > > > like it would be good to have this patch applied on both sides
> > > > > (dmaengine and clk) because more changes will depend on the addition of
> > > > > this helper, that are not related to DMA at all. I'll let you folks
> > > > > figure out what is best.
> > > >
> > > > Are you sending more patches in the next 7 weeks or so that will touch
> > > > the same area? If so, then it sounds like I'll need to take the clk
> > > > patch through clk tree. I don't know what is best because I don't have
> > > > the information about what everyone plans to do in that file.
> > >
> > > This series brings DMA support and needs to access the dmamux registers
> > > that are in the sysctrl area.
> > >
> > > I've sent an RTC series which needs to access this area as well, but
> > > it is not fully ready yet as it was advised to go for a reset
> > > controller in this case. The reset controller would be registered by
> > > the clock driver, so yes it would touch the same file.
> > >
> > > Finally, there is an USB series that is coming soon, I don't know if
> > > it will be ready for merge for 5.19, but it needs to access a specific
> > > register in this area as well (h2mode).
> > >
> > > So provided that we are able to contribute this reset driver quickly
> > > enough, I would argue that it is safer to merge the clk changes in the
> > > clk tree.
> >
> > The clk tree or the renesas-clk tree? ;-)
>
> Actually I forgot about this tree, would you mind to merge *all* the
> patches that depend on the sysctrl changes in the renesas/renesas-clk
> tree? This also stands for the UART and RTC for instance. Otherwise
> you'll need to set up immutable branches and share them with the
> dmaengine, serial and rtc trees. I'm fine either way, it's just much
> less work in the first situation IMHO.
Sure, I can do that, given acks from the DMA, UART, and RTC
maintainers.
So far I've been rather terse in giving feedback on these series,
as I'm in wait-and-see mode w.r.t. what else you've planned for the
sysctrl DT node[1] and clock/sys controller code...
[1] Did I say I'm not that fond of child nodes? But for the dmamux,
it looks like a good solution to handle this.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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