[PATCH 1/3] mtd: mediatek: device tree docs for MTK Smart Device Gen1 NAND

Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com
Tue Mar 8 07:15:45 PST 2016


On Wed,  2 Mar 2016 12:00:11 -0500
Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge.ramirez-ortiz at linaro.org> wrote:

> This patch adds documentation support for Smart Device Gen1 type of
> NAND controllers.
> 
> Mediatek's SoC 2701 is one of the SoCs that implements this controller.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge.ramirez-ortiz at linaro.org>
> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/mtd/mtksdg1-nand.txt       | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 38 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/mtksdg1-nand.txt
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/mtksdg1-nand.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/mtksdg1-nand.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..129d17b
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/mtksdg1-nand.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
> +MTK Smart Device SoCs NAND controller DT binding
> +
> +Required properties:
> +- compatible:          Should be "mediatek,mt2701-nfc".
> +- reg:                 The first contains base physical address and size of
> +                       NAND controller's registers. The second contains base
> +                       physical address and size of NAND ECC engine.

Hm, I'd prefer if you split the ECC engine and NAND controller in two
different NANDs, and then link the NAND controller to the ECC engine
using a phandle.
That's the approach taken by the jz4780 driver [1], and I find it
cleaner than having 2 entries in the reg property.


[1]https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/tree/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/ingenic,jz4780-nand.txt?id=refs/tags/next-20160308

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