[PATCH v3 1/5] Documentation: dt: Add Kona PWM binding

Tim Kryger tim.kryger at linaro.org
Tue Mar 18 17:47:36 EDT 2014


On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Thierry Reding
<thierry.reding at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 01:15:42PM -0700, Tim Kryger wrote:

>> @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
>> +Broadcom Kona PWM controller device tree bindings
>> +
>> +This controller has 6 channels.
>> +
>> +Required Properties :
>> +- compatible: should be "brcm,kona-pwm"
>
> This is somewhat inconsistent because the example below clearly doesn't
> set the compatible property to "brcm,kona-pwm". Perhaps better wording
> would be:
>
>         - compatible: should contain "brcm,kona-pwm"

Agreed, what you wrote is more accurate.  I will update it.

>> +- reg: physical base address and length of the controller's registers
>> +- clocks: phandle + clock specifier pair for the external clock
>> +- #pwm-cells: should be 3.  The first cell specifies the per-chip index
>> +  of the PWM to use, the second cell is the period in nanoseconds, and
>> +  the third cell is the flags.
>
> Please use the canonical description for this:
>
>         - #pwm-cells: Should be 3. See pwm.txt in this directory for a
>           description of the cells format.
>
>> +Refer to pwm/pwm.txt for generic pwm controller node properties.
>
> With the above, this line should go away. But still: "pwm controller" ->
> "PWM controller".

Okay.  I will use the text you provided and drop the other line.

Sorry for missing the capitalization.  I thought I had fixed them all.

Thanks,
Tim



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