[PATCH linux dev-4.17 3/7] mmc: Aspeed: Add Aspeed sdhci core driver

Ryan Chen ryanchen.aspeed at gmail.com
Thu Jul 26 13:07:33 AEST 2018


On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 11:47:40AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-07-26 at 11:41 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Change the "irq" prefixes on the functions.. Dont' do a chained
> > handler, that will be too much overhead for no benefit. Your SoC aren't
> > very fast and you want to avoid that overhead.
> > 
> > Just do a normal interrupt handler, and have it call each port
> > interrupts.
> > 
> > This isn't really an interrupt controller, it has no
> > enable/disable/masking ability, I would just create the ports directly
> > from the same driver and process the interrupts.
> > 
> > I don't think there's benefit in keeping the ports as separate drivers.
> 
> Look at how shdci-pci does it, sdhci-acpi as well, they have multiple
> slots. You can just register multiple slots from a single driver
> I think. You can still use device-tree sub-nodes and iterate them
> from the core driver to create the slots if you want, in case you may
> add slots in the future, but it's not even that a big deal.
> 
> Ben.
> 
>
Thanks, after look into sdhci-pci, it should only request one pci_irq, 
But, i am wondering where is the slot dispatch. could you help me point out it?


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