[PATCH 1/4] rtc: armada38x: Add the device tree binding documentation

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Wed Jan 14 00:13:10 PST 2015


On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 12:02:27AM +0100, Arnaud Ebalard wrote:
> Hi Gregory,
> 
> Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement at free-electrons.com> writes:
> 
> > The Armada 38x SoCs come with a new RTC which differs from the one
> > used in the other mvebu SoCs until now. This patch describes the
> > binding of this RTC.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement at free-electrons.com>
> > ---
> >  .../devicetree/bindings/rtc/armada-380-rtc.txt          | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/armada-380-rtc.txt
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/armada-380-rtc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/armada-380-rtc.txt
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..2c56bef9dd7e
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/armada-380-rtc.txt
> > @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
> > +* Real Time Clock of te Armada 38x SoCs
> > +
> > +RTC controller for the Armada 38x SoCs
> > +
> > +Required properties:
> > +- compatible : Should be "marvell,armada-380-rtc"
> > +- reg: physical base address of the controller and length of memory mapped
> > +  region. The second entires is for the IP configuration part.
>                         ^^^^^^^
>                         entry
> 
> I had to read probe function to understand precisely the purpose of each
> region, i.e. IMHO the description could be made a bit clearer.

Maybe using reg-names would make it easier to understand, both in the
documentation and the DT itself (as well as not needing to enforce a
particular ordering of the two areas in the documentation)

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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