[PATCH v2 1/8] dt: describe base reset signal binding
Shawn Guo
shawn.guo at linaro.org
Sun Feb 17 08:05:59 EST 2013
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 06:34:25PM +0100, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>
> This binding is intended to represent the hardware reset signals present
> internally in most IC (SoC, FPGA, ...) designs.
> It consists of a binding for a reset controller device (provider), and a
> pair of properties, "resets" and "reset-names", to link a device node
> (consumer) to its reset controller via phandle, similarly to the clock
> and interrupt bindings.
>
> The reset controller has all information necessary to reset the consumer
> device. That could be provided via device tree, or it could be implemented
> in hardware.
> The aim is to enable device drivers to request a framework API to issue a
> reset simply by providing their struct device pointer as the most common
> case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel at pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at linaro.org>
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