[PATCH 1/3 repost] clocksource: sh_cmt: Document SoC specific bindings
Simon Horman
horms at verge.net.au
Wed Aug 27 01:09:47 PDT 2014
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 08:55:36AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Simon Horman
> <horms+renesas at verge.net.au> wrote:
> > n general Renesas hardware is not documented to the extent
> > where the relationship between IP blocks on different SoCs can be assumed
> > although they may appear to operate the same way. Furthermore the
> > documentation typically does not specify a version for individual
> > IP blocks. For these reasons a convention of using the SoC name in place
> > of a version and providing SoC-specific compat strings has been adopted.
> >
> > Although not universally liked this convention is used in the bindings
> > for the drivers a number of drivers for Renesas hardware. The purpose
>
> s/the drivers //
Thanks.
>
> > of this patch is to update the Renesas R-Car Compare Match Timer (CMT)
> > driver to follow this convention.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas at verge.net.au>
>
>
>
> > ---
> > * I plan to follow up with patches to use these new bindings in the
> > dtsi files for the affected SoCs.
> > ---
> > .../devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,cmt.txt | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++-
> > 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,cmt.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,cmt.txt
> > index a17418b..500bad2 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,cmt.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,cmt.txt
> > @@ -16,10 +16,34 @@ Required Properties:
> > (CMT0 on sh7372, sh73a0 and r8a7740)
> > - "renesas,cmt-32-fast" for the 32-bit CMT with fast clock support
> > (CMT[234] on sh7372, sh73a0 and r8a7740)
> > + - "renesas,cmt-32-fast-r8a7740" for the R8A7740 32-bit CMT with fast
> > + clock support (CMT[234])
> > + - "renesas,cmt-32-fast-sh7372" for the SH7372 32-bit CMT with fast
> > + clock support (CMT[234])
> > + - "renesas,cmt-32-fast-sh73a0" for the SH73A0 32-bit CMT with fast
> > + clock support (CMT[234])
>
> > + - "renesas,cmt-32-r8a7740" for the R8a7740 32-bit CMT
> > + (CMT0)
> > + - "renesas,cmt-32-sh7372" for the SH7372 32-bit CMT
> > + (CMT0)
> > + - "renesas,cmt-32-sh73a0" for the SH73a0 32-bit CMT
> > + (CMT0)
>
> I'd move these 3 non-fast "renesas,cmt-32-*" values up, under
> "renesas,cmt-32".
>
> > - "renesas,cmt-48" for the 48-bit CMT
> > (CMT1 on sh7372, sh73a0 and r8a7740)
> > - "renesas,cmt-48-gen2" for the second generation 48-bit CMT
> > (CMT[01] on r8a73a4, r8a7790 and r8a7791)
> > + - "renesas,cmt-48-r8a73a4" for the R8A73A4 48-bit CMT
> > + (CMT[01])
> > + - "renesas,cmt-48-r8a7740" for the R8A7740 48-bit CMT
> > + (CMT1)
> > + - "renesas,cmt-48-r8a7790" for the R8A7790 48-bit CMT
> > + (CMT[01])
> > + - "renesas,cmt-48-r8a7791" for the R8A7791 48-bit CMT
> > + (CMT[01])
> > + - "renesas,cmt-48-sh7372" for the SH7372 48-bit CMT
> > + (CMT1)
> > + - "renesas,cmt-48-sh73a0" for the SH73A0 48-bit CMT
> > + (CMT1)
>
> I'd split the above in original and gen2.
Sure. I'll re-order things as you suggest.
> Perhaps you can also add blank lines in between the 4 blocks of
> types; the list is getting long?
Good idea.
> Apart from the minor issues above
> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>
> (for the whole series)
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert at linux-m68k.org
>
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