[PATCH] slimbus: Linux driver framework for SLIMbus.
From: Sagar Dharia <hidden>
Date: 2012-06-04 10:21:08
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These are initial comments. A full review of the patch will take some time. While I am posting this email, this is the result of work both by myself, and my colleague Greg Clemson (cc'ed).
Thank you Marc and Greg for taking time to review this.
The enumeration slim_ch_proto is incorrect. It declares 2 transport protocols which do not exist in the specification: SLIM_HARD_ISO; SLIM_AUTO_ISO.
The enums are more SW representation (and not 1-1 mapping). Difference between HARD_ISO and AUTO_ISO with example: Let's say the root frequency is 24.576MHz. then all 4K family channels (sample rate multiple of 4K) can run isochronously, and all 11.025KHz channel can run with good efficiency. So if a client wants 11.025KHz and is does not want to do flow-control at this root frequency, then the client can specify AUTO_ISO to get the next available isochronous frequency.
I suggest that term "enumeration address" should be used.
Thank you for catching this. I will change it where-ever applicable.
b) Similarly to (a) the driver may be probed before the device has been given a logical address (LA). This makes sense in the case of driver that turns on the device (say via gpio) once the bus has booted. However, the driver then needs to sit and poll slim_get_logical_addr() until the logical address.
This is not the case anymore. While taking care of the comments for RFC, I have introduced a completion that will be signalled when LA is given to the device. The driver can wait on that completion (wait_enum) instead of polling. Regards Sagar Sent by an employee of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum.