Re: [PATCH 2/4] fpga: dfl: Move DFH header register macros to linux/dfl.h

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On 22/06/2021 09.39, Wu, Hao wrote:
On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 06:19:15PM +0800, Wu, Hao wrote:
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] fpga: dfl: Move DFH header register macros to
linux/dfl.h

From: Debarati Biswas <debaratix.biswas@xxxxxxxxx>

Device Feature List (DFL) drivers may be defined in subdirectories other
than drivers/fpga, and each DFL driver should have access to the Device
Feature Header (DFH) register, which contains revision and type
information. This change moves the macros specific to the DFH register
from drivers/fpga/dfl.h to include/linux/dfl.h.

Looks like it requires to access the revision info in the next patch, because
current dfl_device doesn't expose related information.

@Yilun, do you have any concern to expose those info via dfl_device?

Exposing these header register definitions are good to me. These registers
are in DFL device's MMIO region, so it is good to share these info with
all DFL drivers.

I mean expose revision via dfl_device, as dfl core already reads the DFL
header, it sounds duplicate read in each dfl device driver. And if we
consider this as a common need from dfl device driver, then the code
can be moved to a common place as well.

I hope from dfl device driver side, it doesn't need to know details of
how DFH register is defined, only simple way from dfl device data
structure or some simple helper function, then dfl device driver could
know all common information from DFH.

How do you think?

struct dfl_device {} already has "u16 type" and "u16 feature_id", so it would make sense to add "u8 feature_rev" as well?

// Martin



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