On 06/01/2015 12:31 AM, Barry Song wrote:
> 2015-05-29 23:50 GMT+08:00 Bjorn Andersson <[email protected]>:
>> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Suman Anna <[email protected]> wrote:
>> [..]
>>>>                               reg = <0x13240000 0x00010000>;
>>>
>>> An unrelated question here, why the reg is same for all the child nodes
>>> of the  parent ipc node? If this is partitioned properly, then the
>>> driver can be simplified a bit by using platform_get_resource and
>>> devm_ioremap_resource?
>>>
>>
>> Good catch Suman, I missed that.
>>
>> Barry, if these blocks represents various functionalities of the same
>> hw block then you should consider moving them to be part of a
>> simple-mfd.
> 
> the hwspinlock and the IPC, which works for kicking interrupts between
> multiple cores in the SoC,  are in one bus node but there is no
> overlapping register.
> hwspinlock:
> begin from 0x13240000 + 0x400
> IPC:
> begin from 0x13240000, and end at begin from 0x13240000 + 0x400 - 0x4 ?
> 
> so i guess we can refine the dts memory region to avoid MFD?

Yeah, that should be fine from the hwspinlock perspective, all its
registers are self-contained.

regards
Suman
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