[PATCH v10 1/4] dt-binding:Documents of the mbigen bindings

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Fri Dec 18 02:58:38 PST 2015


On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 09:58:20AM +0800, majun (F) wrote:
> Hi Mark:
> 
> 在 2015/12/17 21:52, Mark Rutland 写道:
> > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 07:56:34PM +0800, MaJun wrote:
> >> From: Ma Jun <majun258 at huawei.com>
> [...]
> >> +- compatible: Should be "hisilicon,mbigen-v2"
> >> +
> >> +- reg: Specifies the base physical address and size of the Mbigen
> >> +  registers.
> >> +
> >> +- interrupt controller: Identifies the node as an interrupt controller
> >> +
> >> +- msi-parent: Specifies the MSI controller this mbigen use.
> >> +  For more detail information,please refer to the generic msi-parent binding in
> >> +  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/msi.txt.
> >> +
> >> +- num-msis:Specifies the total number of interrupt this device has.
> > 
> > Is this the number of pins implemented? Or the number of pins that are
> > in use?
> > 
> > The latter feels like something we can derive.
> 
> num-msis means the total number of pins implemented.

Ok. In that case I think it should be:

- num-pins: the total number of pins implemented in this Mbigen
  instance.

(with the appropriate fixups in the driver).

With that:

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>

> >> +- #interrupt-cells : Specifies the number of cells needed to encode an
> >> +  interrupt source. The value must be 2.
> >> +
> >> +  The 1st cell is hardware pin number of the interrupt.This number is local to
> >> +  each mbigen chip and in the range from 0 to the maximum interrupts number
> >> +  of the mbigen.
> > 
> > Just to check: 0 - 63 represent the "reserved" pins, yes?
> 
> Yes, you are right.
> 
> > 
> > Other than those questions, this looks good to me.
> 
> Do i need to post a new patch to update these two questions?

Hopefully not.

Marc, are you happy to fold in the s/num-msis/num-pins/ change?

Thanks,
Mark.



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