[PATCH 2/2] ARM: dts: AM4372: add few nodes

Mugunthan V N mugunthanvnm at ti.com
Mon Aug 5 02:06:07 EDT 2013


On Monday 05 August 2013 10:38 AM, Afzal Mohammed wrote:
> Hi Muguthan,
>
> On Saturday 03 August 2013 05:19 PM, Mugunthan V N wrote:
>> On 8/2/2013 7:16 PM, Afzal Mohammed wrote:
>
>>> +        mac: ethernet at 4a100000 {
>>> +            compatible = "ti,am4372-cpsw","ti,cpsw";
>
>> compatibility "ti,am4372-cpsw" is not needed as driver has only
>> "ti,cpsw"
>> compatibility
>
> No, please read device tree documentation [1].
>
> DT is a pure hardware description, it does not depend on driver,
> dependency is only vice versa.

Thanks for the clarification

>
>>> +            reg = <0x4a100000 0x800
>>> +                   0x4a101200 0x100>;
>>> +            interrupts = <GIC_SPI 40 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH
>>> +                      GIC_SPI 41 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH
>>> +                      GIC_SPI 42 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH
>>> +                      GIC_SPI 43 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
>>> +            ti,hwmods = "cpgmac0";
>>> +            status = "disabled";
>>> +        };
>
>> There are many other parameters which are missed here.
>
> Reason has been mentioned in the commit message, quoting relevant here
> again,
>
> >> For i2c, spi, cpsw & pwm - only the properties that were sure to be
> >> correct has been added (main intention is to make hwmod happy and
> >> avoid any later modification to here added properties).
>
> I really wanted to avoid a later patch that has a line starting with
> minus on DTS.
>
> Since you are working on cpsw support, can you help here with a patch
> for other properties.

Sure I can help you to add more DT entries which will not change
according to hardware

Regards
Mugunthan V N



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