Re: [RESEND v2 4/6] soc: starfive: Extract JH7110 pmu private operations

From: Changhuang Liang
Date: Thu Apr 20 2023 - 23:28:14 EST




On 2023/4/20 1:47, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 08:56:44PM -0700, Changhuang Liang wrote:
>> Move JH7110 private operation into private data of compatible.
>> Convenient to expand different compatible.
>
> I prefer how the code looks in v2, thanks.
> However, just as in the prior patch, "Convenient to expand different
> compatible" isn't really a justification - specifically, supporting the
> power domain controller serving the dphy is your motivation here. The
> important difference being that it uses a regmap from a syscon and has
> no interrupts nor the encourage features.
>

So should I expand the commit message which called "in order to add the
aon power domain" although the patch is applied behind current patch.

> Although, given the only real similarity the code driving each of the
> PMUs is the variable names, I guess you could argue that this driver
> should be left alone and the "aon dphy" should be a different driver
> altogether.
>

I have tried independent this aon pmu, but it code is very similar to the
original pmu, so I think they can put together, reduce linux kernel bloat.

> I don't have a strong opinion though & if it's fine with Walker and
> noone else objects, it's fine with me...