Re: [PATCH 2/5] dt-bindings: soc: hpe: hpe,gxp-srom.yaml

[Clay Chang]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 10:49:36AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 10/01/2023 05:25, clayc@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Clay Chang <clayc@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Document binding to support SROM driver in GXP.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Clay Chang <clayc@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  .../bindings/soc/hpe/hpe,gxp-srom.yaml        | 36 +++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 36 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/hpe/hpe,gxp-srom.yaml
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/hpe/hpe,gxp-srom.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/hpe/hpe,gxp-srom.yaml
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..14ad97d595c8
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/hpe/hpe,gxp-srom.yaml
> 
> Don't drop stuff to soc. Put it in respective directories. This also
> applies to your driver.
> 
> SROM controllers go to memory-controllers. What is this, I have no clue.
> "SROM Control Register" is not helping me.
> 
> > @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
> > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
> > +%YAML 1.2
> > +---
> > +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/soc/hpe/hpe,gxp-srom.yaml# 
> > +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml# 
> > +
> > +title: HPE GXP SoC SROM Control Register
> > +
> > +maintainers:
> > +  - Clay Chang <clayc@xxxxxxx>
> > +
> > +description: |+
> > +  The SROM control register can be used to configure LPC related legacy
> > +  I/O registers.
> 
> And why this is a hardware? No, you now add fake devices to be able to
> write some stuff from user-space... Otherwise this needs proper hardware
> description.

Thank you for commenting on this. You are right, this is not a real
hardware device, but simply exposes MMIO regions to the user-space.
Maybe we should rewrite this as a syscon driver. Is writing a syscon
driver a right direction?

> 
> > +
> > +properties:
> > +  compatible:
> > +    items:
> 
> Drop items, you have only one item.
> 
> > +      - const: hpe,gxp-srom
> > +
> > +  reg:
> > +    items:
> > +      - description: SROM LPC Configuration Registers
> 
> Drop items and description. Just maxItems: 1
> 
> > +
> > +required:
> > +  - compatible
> > +  - reg
> > +
> > +unevaluatedProperties: false
> > +
> > +examples:
> > +  - |
> > +    srom: srom@80fc0000 {
> > +      compatible = "hpe,gxp-srom";
> > +      reg = <0x80fc0000 0x100>;
> > +    };
> 
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
> 

Thanks,
Clay