[PATCH 5/6] usb: xhci-dwc3: Add support for clocks/resets

[Samuel Holland]

On 2/8/21 7:42 PM, Andre Przywara wrote:
> On Sun,  7 Feb 2021 23:57:23 -0600
> Samuel Holland <samuel at sholland.org> wrote:
> 
> (CC:ing Simon and Kever)
> 
>> Some platforms, like the Allwinner H6, do not have a separate glue layer
>> around the dwc3. Instead, they rely on the clocks/resets/phys referenced
>> from the dwc3 DT node itself. Add support for enabling the clocks/resets
>> referenced from the dwc3 DT node.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel at sholland.org>
> 
> That looks alright on a first glance, but have you checked how this
> interacts with and relates to dwc3-of-simple.c?
> This seems to do similar things?

Yes, they do the same thing, but with a different DT binding.
dwc3-of-simple binds to, and expects the clocks/resets to be in, the DT
node _containing_ the snps,dwc3 node. The xhci-dwc3 driver binds to the
snps,dwc3 node itself. This is why other platforms were not affected by
the change

I don't think there's any way to attach two drivers to the same DT node
at the same time, so we cannot take advantage of the dwc3-of-simple code
without rearranging the device tree.

Interestingly, Linux has supported the H6 in its version of
dwc3-of-simple since commit e362098f0e12 ("usb: dwc3: of-simple: Add
compatible for Allwinner H6 platform"). But the device tree ended up not
using a glue layer node or this compatible.

Maybe a better forward is to modify the device tree to be more similar
to most other platforms? On the other hand, as you found, Hisilicon and
Unipher platforms use the same binding as Allwinner. It's unfortunate
that there are two distinct but equally "correct" ways to represent the
same hardware.

Cheers,
Samuel