[PATCH v2 1/3] dt-bindings: Consolidate SRAM bindings from all vendors

[Rob Herring]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Maxime Ripard
<maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 06:19:31PM +0900, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 22.10.2015 18:05, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:25:28AM +0900, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> >> SRAM bindings for various SoCs, using the mmio-sram genalloc
>> >> API, are spread over different places - per SoC vendor. Since all of
>> >> these are quite similar (they depend on mmio-sram) move them to a common
>> >> place.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski at samsung.com>
>> >> Cc: Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de>
>> >> Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>
>> >> Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens at csie.org>
>> >> Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene at kernel.org>
>> >> Suggested-by: Rob Herring <robh+dt at kernel.org>
>> >>
>> >> ---
>> >>
>> >> Changes since v1:
>> >> 1. New patch. Extended suggestion from Rob.
>> >> ---
>> >>  .../bindings/{arm/rockchip/pmu-sram.txt => sram/rockchip-pmu-sram.txt}    | 0
>> >>  .../bindings/{arm/rockchip/smp-sram.txt => sram/rockchip-smp-sram.txt}    | 0
>> >>  .../bindings/{arm/exynos/smp-sysram.txt => sram/samsung-sram.txt}         | 0
>> >>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/{misc => sram}/sram.txt                 | 0
>> >>  .../devicetree/bindings/{soc/sunxi/sram.txt => sram/sunxi-sram.txt}       | 0
>> >>  5 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>> >>  rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/{arm/rockchip/pmu-sram.txt => sram/rockchip-pmu-sram.txt} (100%)
>> >>  rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/{arm/rockchip/smp-sram.txt => sram/rockchip-smp-sram.txt} (100%)
>> >>  rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/{arm/exynos/smp-sysram.txt => sram/samsung-sram.txt} (100%)
>> >>  rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/{misc => sram}/sram.txt (100%)
>> >>  rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/{soc/sunxi/sram.txt => sram/sunxi-sram.txt} (100%)
>> >
>> > I'm not sure about that one. The SRAM bindins we have for sunxi is for
>> > an SRAM controller, that maps the SRAM either to the CPU or to the
>> > devices.
>> >
>> > It's not really related to the other users, and wouldn't it be
>> > confusing to have a driver in drivers/soc, and a Documentation in
>> > another sub-directory?
>>
>> I guess the only relation to other users is the "mmio-sram". In the same
>> time this is still similar to e.g. Samsung's sram bindings (where the
>> memory is mapped to CPU only).
>>
>> Being located in drivers/soc is not an issue here - code for other
>> vendors may be moved there as well in the future.
>>
>> Of course I do not insist. Actually Rob's comment was only about moving
>> sram.txt and Samsung's sram to common place.

I certainly appreciate your finding other instances.

>> Anyway I will be sending v3 of these because while looking more
>> carefully I found hard-coded paths to bindings/misc/sram.txt. I'll fix
>> it in next version.
>
> I didn't really have the context. If Rob feels like we should do that,
> then go ahead.

I'm trying to group by binding type rather than arch or vendor for
common bindings. I think bindings/sram is fine to host both ctrlr and
memory range bindings.

Rob