Re: [PATCH v2 03/12] bus: stm32-fmc2-ebi: add STM32 FMC2 EBI controller driver

[Marek Vasut]

On 4/17/20 5:41 PM, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:31:49 +0200
> Marek Vasut <marex@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/17/20 5:29 PM, Christophe Kerello wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/16/20 9:53 PM, Boris Brezillon wrote:  
>>>> On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 17:57:27 +0200
>>>> Christophe Kerello <christophe.kerello@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>> The driver adds the support for the STMicroelectronics FMC2 EBI
>>>>> controller
>>>>> found on STM32MP SOCs.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Christophe Kerello <christophe.kerello@xxxxxx>
>>>>> Tested-by: Marek Vasut <marex@xxxxxxx>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> Changes in v2:
>>>>> Â - call 2 APIs to manage FMC2 enable/disable instead of ops
>>>>> Â - call 2 APIs to manage FMC2 NWAIT shared signal instead of ops
>>>>>
>>>>> Â drivers/bus/KconfigÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ |ÂÂ 11 +
>>>>> Â drivers/bus/MakefileÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ |ÂÂÂ 1 +
>>>>> Â drivers/bus/stm32-fmc2-ebi.c | 1091
>>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++  
>>>>
>>>> Hm, I see that other memory bus controller drivers are placed under
>>>> drivers/memory/, any reason for choosing drivers/bus/? If that's where
>>>> we want to have all generic memory bus controllers to live it might be
>>>> worth moving existing drivers to the drivers/bus/ directory at some
>>>> point.
>>>>  
>>>
>>> Hi Boris,
>>>
>>> I see this controller as an external bus interface as we are able to
>>> attach different devices on it, like a PSRAM, an ethernet controller, a
>>> FPGA, a LCD display, ...
>>>
>>> When I had a look at bus/Kconfig file, I have found similar drivers
>>> (like IMX_WEIM or QCOM_EBI2 drivers). These drivers are able to connect
>>> devices like NAND Flash, SRAM, ethernet adapters, FPGAs and LCD displays
>>> as it is written in the Kconfig file.
>>>
>>> But, after checking memory/Kconfig file, it is also possible to find
>>> similar drivers (like ATMEL_EBI driver that is inspired by the WEIM bus
>>> driver).
>>>
>>> So, I will follow the recommendation and I will move it to
>>> drivers/memory folder if it is the place where this driver should be.  
>>
>> The EBI isn't a memory bus, you can very well have a non-memory device,
>> like an external parallel bus memory controller on it. So why should it
>> be in drivers/memory ?
> 
> Just like most of those so-called memory bus controllers we have under
> drivers/memory/ => they are most of the time used to interact with
> memories but can also be used for other things (Christophe listed a few
> uses cases). And I'm not pushing one way or the other, all I said was
> that we should makes things consistent instead of having half of
> those controller drivers in drivers/memory/ and the other half in
> drivers/bus/.

I agree with that.