Thread (42 messages) 42 messages, 4 authors, 2022-07-02

Re: [PATCH v7 14/33] crypto: rockchip: handle reset also in PM

From: LABBE Corentin <clabbe@baylibre.com>
Date: 2022-06-30 14:51:57
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Le Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 02:37:35PM +0100, John Keeping a écrit :
On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 10:05:54AM +0200, LABBE Corentin wrote:
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Le Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 12:04:24PM +0100, John Keeping a écrit :
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On Sun, May 08, 2022 at 06:59:38PM +0000, Corentin Labbe wrote:
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reset could be handled by PM functions.
Is there any further rationale for this?

After this change there is no longer a guaranteed reset pulse on probe
since the reset control may already be de-asserted.  This is normally
the most important case for a reset as it's the only time when the state
of the hardware is unknown.

The original use of devm_add_action_or_reset() seems a bit weird already
since there doesn't seem to be any need to assert reset when the driver
is unloaded.
I am not an hw engineer, so my knowledge on reset is low.
So why not having a reset pulse on probe is a problem ?
The point of the reset is to bring the hardware back to a known state.
Since we don't know what state the hardware will be in following the
bootloader or previous OS, I think the reset in probe is the only place
that it is important.

If this patch isn't fixing anything, I suggest just dropping it.
Thanks for the explanation, I will re-add the reset at probe.
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