Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] dt-bindings: phy: cadence-torrent: Add latency properties

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Wed May 10 2023 - 17:12:17 EST


On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 09:08:39AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 09/05/2023 23:57, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 05:31:19PM +0200, Christian Gmeiner wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 07:50:30AM +0200, Dominic Rath wrote:
> >>>> From: Alexander Bahle <bahle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>
> >>>> Add "tx-phy-latency-ps" and "rx-phy-latency-ps" DT bindings for
> >>>> setting the PCIe PHY latencies.
> >>>> The properties expect a list of uint32 PHY latencies in picoseconds for
> >>>> every supported speed starting at PCIe Gen1, e.g.:
> >>>>
> >>>> tx-phy-latency-ps = <100000 200000>; /* Gen1: 100ns, Gen2: 200ns */
> >>>> rx-phy-latency-ps = <150000 250000>; /* Gen1: 150ns, Gen2: 250ns */
> >>>
> >>> Are these things that could/should be described in a more generic
> >>> place? They don't look necessarily Cadence-specific.
> >>
> >> As there is currently no generic binding, would you like to see a new
> >> yaml binding
> >> added (Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/phy.yaml) that contains just the
> >> two phy properties?
> >
> > The whole thing is more a question for Rob.
>
> For which you might wait a bit currently.
>
> If the question is only about location of the properties - device schema
> or something generic - then for now you can keep it here. Moving to
> generic schema is always easy later.
>
> Better to have proper names for properties.

Good point. The current names seem fine to me since the names
themselves aren't Cadence-specific.

Bjorn