[PATCH v2 2/2] Documentation: devicetree: Add PL310 PM bindings

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Apr 19 15:41:22 PDT 2016


On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 04:38:14PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Brad Mouring <brad.mouring at ni.com> wrote:
> > Document the DT bindings for controlling ARM PL310 Power Control
> > settings.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Brad Mouring <brad.mouring at ni.com>
> 
> What happened to Josh's ack?
> 
> > ---
> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2c2x0.txt | 4 ++++
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2c2x0.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2c2x0.txt
> > index fe0398c..c1c756e 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2c2x0.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2c2x0.txt
> > @@ -84,6 +84,10 @@ Optional properties:
> >  - prefetch-instr : Instruction prefetch. Value: <0> (forcibly disable),
> >    <1> (forcibly enable), property absent (retain settings set by
> >    firmware)
> > +- arm,dynamic-clock-gating : L2 dynamic clock gating. Value: <0> (forcibly
> > +  disable), <1> or property absent (forcibly enable)
> > +- arm,standby-mode: L2 standby mode enable. Value <0> (forcibly disable),
> > +  <1>  or property absent (forcibly enable)
> 
> What happened to "retain settings set by firmware"?

I said we shouldn't.  Current behaviour is that we enable these features,
and moving to missing-means-retain means that everything today ends up
with these features disabled.  IOW, it's yet another change of actual
behaviour that every platform would see.

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