[PATCH v2 3/3] clocksource: sh_tmu: Document r8a7779 binding

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Simon,

Thank you for the patch.

On Thursday 04 September 2014 09:55:21 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 a number of drivers for Renesas hardware. The purpose of this patch is
> to update the Renesas R-Car Timer Unit (TMU) driver to follow this
> convention.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas at verge.net.au>
> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>
> 
> ---
> * I plan to follow up with a patch patch to use the new binding in the
>   dtsi files for the r8a7779 SoC.
> commit 471269b790aec03385dc4fb127ed7094ff83c16d
> 
> v2
> * Suggestions by Mark Rutland and Sergei Shtylyov
>   - Compatible strings should be "one or more" not "one" of those listed
>   - Describe the generic binding as covering any MTU2 device
>   - Re-order compat strings from most to least specific
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,tmu.txt | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,tmu.txt
> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,tmu.txt index
> 425d0c5..f9a9545 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,tmu.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,tmu.txt
> @@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ are independent. The TMU hardware supports up to three
> channels.
> 
>  Required Properties:
> 
> -  - compatible: must contain "renesas,tmu"
> +  - compatible: must contain one or more of the following:
> +    - "renesas,tmu-r8a7779" R8A7779 TMU
> +    - "renesas,tmu" any TMU

How about matching the wording of patch 1/3 with

    - "renesas,tmu-r8a7779" for the R8A7779 TMU
    - "renesas,tmu" for any TMU.
      This is a fallback for the above renesas,tmu-* entries

Same comment for patch 2/3.

With this change,

Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>

>    - reg: base address and length of the registers block for the timer
> module.
> 
> @@ -27,7 +29,7 @@ Optional Properties:
>  Example: R8A7779 (R-Car H1) TMU0 node
> 
>  	tmu0: timer at ffd80000 {
> -		compatible = "renesas,tmu";
> +		compatible = "renesas,tmu-r8a7779", "renesas,tmu";
>  		reg = <0xffd80000 0x30>;
>  		interrupts = <0 32 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
>  			     <0 33 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart