[PATCH 0/2] arm64: dts: renesas: Remove unit-addresses and regs from integrated caches

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Mon Mar 6 00:47:48 PST 2017


On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 02:18:15PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 	Hi Simon, Magnus,
> 
> This patch series removes the bogus unit-addresses and reg properties
> from the device nodes representing Cortex-A57/A53 cache controllers.
> 
> Note that the latter were added to remove warnings from dtc when using
> W=1:
> 
>     Warning (unit_address_vs_reg): Node /cache-controller at 0 has a unit name, but no reg property
> 
> In hindsight, adding the reg properties turned out to be the wrong fix.
> Indeed, the Cortex-A57/A53 cache controllers are integrated controllers,
> and thus the device nodes representing them should not have
> unit-addresses or reg properties.
> 
> This series does not have a runtime effect, as Linux doesn't rely much
> on the properties of the cache-controller nodes.
> 
> After this patch has been accepted, I'll submit a similar series to fix
> the DTS files for the Renesas arm32 SoCs.

Thanks, applied.



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