Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] soc: nuvoton: add NPCM LPC BPC driver

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2022, at 21:12, Tomer Maimon wrote:
> Add Nuvoton BMC NPCM LPC BIOS post code (BPC) driver.
>
> The NPCM BPC monitoring two configurable I/O address written by the host
> on the Low Pin Count (LPC) bus.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tomer Maimon <tmaimon77@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/soc/Kconfig                |   1 +
>  drivers/soc/Makefile               |   1 +
>  drivers/soc/nuvoton/Kconfig        |  24 ++
>  drivers/soc/nuvoton/Makefile       |   3 +
>  drivers/soc/nuvoton/npcm-lpc-bpc.c | 396 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

In general, I try to keep drivers/soc/ for drivers that are
used purely inside of the kernel and don't provide their
own user space ABI, those should normally be part of
some subsystem grouped by functionality.

It appears that we have similar drivers for aspeed already,
so there is some precedent, but I would still like to ask
you and Joel to try to make sure the two are compatible,
or ideally share the code for the user-facing part of the
LPC driver.

> +config NPCM_PCI_MBOX
> +	tristate "NPCM PCI Mailbox Controller"
> +	depends on (ARCH_NPCM || COMPILE_TEST) && REGMAP && MFD_SYSCON
> +	help
> +	  Expose the NPCM BMC PCI MBOX registers found on Nuvoton SOCs
> +	  to userspace.

This looks unrelated to the LPC driver, so this should
probably be a separate patch. The same comment about user
space presumably applies here, but I have not seen the driver.

The implementation of npcm-lpc-bpc looks fine otherwise, I only
noticed one minor detail that I would change:

> +	np = pdev->dev.parent->of_node;
> +	if (!of_device_is_compatible(np, "nuvoton,npcm750-lpc") &&
> +	    !of_device_is_compatible(np, "nuvoton,npcm845-lpc")) {
> +		dev_err(dev, "unsupported LPC device binding\n");
> +		return -ENODEV;
> +	}

This check doesn't seem to make sense here, since those are
the only two types you support.

      Arnd