[PATCH V2 8/8] dt-bindings: stm32: add compatible for syscon

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Mon May 7 09:35:37 PDT 2018


On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 04:18:43PM +0200, Christophe Roullier wrote:
> This patch describes syscon DT bindings.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Roullier <christophe.roullier at st.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/stm32.txt | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/stm32.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/stm32.txt
> index 6808ed9..06e3834 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/stm32.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/stm32.txt
> @@ -8,3 +8,7 @@ using one of the following compatible strings:
>    st,stm32f746
>    st,stm32h743
>    st,stm32mp157
> +
> +Required nodes:
> +- syscon: the soc bus node must have a system controller node pointing to the
> +  global control registers, with the compatible string "syscon";

You misunderstood my prior comment. 'syscon' alone is not valid. You 
need SoC specific compatible string for it and 'stm32' is not SoC 
specific. IOW, the compatible property for a syscon should imply every 
single register field in the block.

Rob



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