[PATCH v1 1/2] dt: atmel-usart: document new I/O data register width property

Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com
Thu Jul 30 06:54:00 PDT 2015


On Thu, 2015-07-30 at 15:36 +0200, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> Le 30/07/2015 15:06, Andy Shevchenko a écrit :
> > This change documents a new property for the Atmel serial device, 
> > allowing an
> > implementer to specify either four bytes or one byte access to the 
> > controller
> > data register.
> > 
> > This supports a change that unbreaks this driver on ATNGW100 board.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/atmel-usart.txt | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/atmel
> > -usart.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/atmel
> > -usart.txt
> > index e6e6142..a8c290a7 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/atmel-usart.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/atmel-usart.txt
> > @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ Required properties:
> >    additional mode or an USART new feature.
> >    For the dbgu UART, use "atmel,<chip>-dbgu", "atmel,<chip>-usart"
> >  - reg: Should contain registers location and length
> > +- reg-io-width: The I/O register width (in bytes) implemented by
> > +  this device. Supported values are 1 or 4 (the default).
> 
> Well, sorry but no.
> The proper way to implement this is to cling to certain compatible
> strings. But I'm pretty sure that this issue shall not be fixed like 
> this.
> 
> But I think that Cyrille is about to propose another version. Let's 
> wait
> for his code...

Good, because I have really no time for this.
As I said earlier I can test whatever you propose. I'm not going to imp
rove my approach. Sorry.

> 
> Bye,
> 
> 
> >  - interrupts: Should contain interrupt
> >  - clock-names: tuple listing input clock names.
> >  	Required elements: "usart"
> > 
> 
> 

-- 
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy



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