[PATCH 2/3 repost] clocksource: sh_mtu2: Document r7s72100 binding
Simon Horman
horms at verge.net.au
Tue Sep 2 18:02:01 PDT 2014
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:52:40AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 06:28:19AM +0100, Simon Horman wrote:
> > In 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
> > of this patch is to update the Renesas R-Car Multi-Function Timer Pulse
> > Unit 2 (MTU2) driver to follow this convention.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas at verge.net.au>
> >
> > ---
> > * I plan to follow up with a patch patch to use the new binding in the
> > dtsi files for the r7s72100 SoC.
> > ---
> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,mtu2.txt | 6 ++++--
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,mtu2.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,mtu2.txt
> > index 917453f..ec4d334 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,mtu2.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,mtu2.txt
> > @@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ are independent. The MTU2 hardware supports five channels indexed from 0 to 4.
> >
> > Required Properties:
> >
> > - - compatible: must contain "renesas,mtu2"
> > + - compatible: must be one of the following.
>
> Surely "one or more", follwing the example?
Thanks, yes, it should be "one or more".
> > + - "renesas,mtu2" for generic MTU2
>
> s/generic/any/ to make it clearer this should be present in all lists
> for the moment?
Sure.
> > + - "renesas,mtu2-r7s72100" for R7S72100 MTU2
>
> It might make sense to move this above the "renesas,mtu2" entry to make
> the ordering a bit clearer.
Sure.
> Cheers,
> Mark.
>
> >
> > - reg: base address and length of the registers block for the timer module.
> >
> > @@ -26,7 +28,7 @@ Required Properties:
> > Example: R7S72100 (RZ/A1H) MTU2 node
> >
> > mtu2: timer at fcff0000 {
> > - compatible = "renesas,mtu2";
> > + compatible = "renesas,mtu2-r7s72100", "renesas,mtu2";
> > reg = <0xfcff0000 0x400>;
> > interrupts = <0 139 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
> > <0 146 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
> > --
> > 2.0.1
> >
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