[PATCH] devicetree/bindings: Add binding for micron n25q512a memory

[Priyanka Jain]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wood Scott-B07421
> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2014 3:40 AM
> To: Jain Priyanka-B32167
> Cc: devicetree at vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org; linux-
> spi at vger.kernel.org; linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] devicetree/bindings: Add binding for micron n25q512a
> memory
> 
> On Thu, 2014-07-03 at 15:42 +0530, Priyanka Jain wrote:
> > -Micron n25q512a memory is supported by m25p80 driver.
> >  Add compatible field required to support n25q512a in m25p80.txt -Add
> > micron to the vendor-prefixes.txt file
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Priyanka Jain <Priyanka.Jain at freescale.com>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/m25p80.txt   |    1 +
> >  .../devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt        |    1 +
> >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> Why did you send this to the ppc list but not the spi or mtd lists?
> 
[Jain Priyanka-B32167] Sorry, I missed that
> I'm having a hard time following the flow of how these SPI devices get
> bound -- is the compatible involved at all?  I don't see this string
> (with vendor prefix included) in the driver.  I do see a table that
> contains what looks like device IDs.  If the device can report its id,
> shouldn't we rely on that rather than device tree compatible?
> 
> -Scott
[Jain Priyanka-B32167]
Spi driver has a check to device name corresponding to device-id and compare to what is passed in dts string.
New checkpatch script search for exact string match in binding folder. So, I have added this in example.
> 
> 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/m25p80.txt
> > b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/m25p80.txt
> > index 4611aa8..ce02e81 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/m25p80.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/m25p80.txt
> > @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Required properties:
> >                 the DT binding is not Linux-only, but in case of Linux,
> see the
> >                 "spi_nor_ids" table in drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c
> for the list
> >                 of supported chips.
> > +               example: "micron,n25q512a"
> >  - reg : Chip-Select number
> >  - spi-max-frequency : Maximum frequency of the SPI bus the chip can
> > operate at
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
> > b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
> > index 4d7f375..a44cfee 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
> > @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ marvell	Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
> >  maxim	Maxim Integrated Products
> >  micrel	Micrel Inc.
> >  microchip	Microchip Technology Inc.
> > +micron	Micron Technology Inc.
> >  mosaixtech	Mosaix Technologies, Inc.
> >  moxa	Moxa
> >  mpl	MPL AG
>