Re: [PATCH v6 08/52] dt-bindings: memory: tegra20: emc: Document mfd-simple compatible and statistics sub-device

From: Dmitry Osipenko
Date: Tue Oct 27 2020 - 15:27:04 EST


27.10.2020 16:22, Thierry Reding пишет:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 01:16:51AM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>> External Memory Controller can gather various hardware statistics that
>> are intended to be used for debugging purposes and for dynamic frequency
>> scaling of memory bus.
>>
>> Document the new mfd-simple compatible and EMC statistics sub-device.
>> The subdev contains EMC DFS OPP table and interconnect paths to be used
>> for dynamic scaling of system's memory bandwidth based on EMC utilization
>> statistics.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> .../memory-controllers/nvidia,tegra20-emc.txt | 43 +++++++++++++++++--
>> 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> Why does this have to be modelled as a separate device? Isn't this just
> using a couple of registers out of the EMC register range? If so, this
> would better just be integrated into the parent node and implemented as
> part of the EMC driver. No need to further complicate things by adding
> a dummy child.

Maybe true, I'll take a closer look.