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

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Fri Sep 5 18:21:38 PDT 2014


On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 10:00:03AM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> 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>

Thanks, will do.



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