[PATCH 01/31] ARM: tegra: add missing clock documentation to DT bindings

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Sun Dec 1 14:05:44 EST 2013


On 11/29/2013 04:49 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 01:53:56PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote: 
> [...]
>> @@ -60,6 +81,12 @@ of the following host1x client modules: -
>> compatible: "nvidia,tegra<chip>-dc" - reg: Physical base address
>> and length of the controller's registers. - interrupts: The
>> interrupt outputs from the controller. +  - clocks : Must contain
>> an entry for each entry in clock-names. +    See
>> ../clocks/clock-bindings.txt for details. +  - clock-names : Must
>> include the following entries: +    - disp1 or disp2 (depending
>> on the controller instance)
> 
> I'm not sure if this makes sense. The name could be the same
> independent of which controller uses it. If it isn't then the
> driver would need additional code to find out which instance it is
> and construct a dynamic string.
> 
> Any objection to just make this entry "disp", or "dc"?

This patch simply documents the binding that the various drivers
already require and/or whatever is already in the DT files if there
are any clocks the drivers don't currently use. I did consider fixing
up all the current usage to actually be sane, but that would require
even more driver changes (in addition to those required for the reset
framework patches).

>> +  - clock-names : Must include the following entries:
> 
> One other thing I noticed here is that you use a space between the 
> property name and the :. None of the other properties have that, so
> it looks somewhat out of place. The same is true for other
> bindings, but there seem to be inconsistencies in some places
> anyway, so perhaps we don't care? Well, I do care, don't know about
> you. =)

Yes, I simply cut/paste the clock docs from one binding into the other
to make sure the wording was consistent. I guess I need to go through
and adjust the pasted format to match the various bindings. It's a
pity they're plain-text not a schema, so there is no consistency here:-(

>> diff --git
>> a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/nvidia,tegra114-spi.txt
>> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/nvidia,tegra114-spi.txt 
>> index 91ff771c7e77..d4f2d534934b 100644 ---
>> a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/nvidia,tegra114-spi.txt 
>> +++
>> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/nvidia,tegra114-spi.txt 
>> @@ -6,8 +6,10 @@ Required properties: - interrupts: Should
>> contain SPI interrupts. - nvidia,dma-request-selector : The Tegra
>> DMA controller's phandle and request selector for this SPI
>> controller. -- This is also require clock named "spi" as per
>> binding document -
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clock-bindings.txt +-
>> clocks : Must contain an entry for each entry in clock-names. +
>> See ../clocks/clock-bindings.txt for details. +- clock-names :
>> Must include the following entries: +  - spi
> 
> This is inconsistent with other bindings that require only a
> single clock entry. I suppose that this is required because of the
> driver requesting a specifically named clock, in which case that's
> fine.

This driver does clk_get(dev, "spi") rather than clk_get(dev, NULL),
so this requires a specific name. Again, I did consider updating all
drivers to use names, but decided I didn't want to do even more driver
changes, but instead just document what was currently required.



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