[PATCH v7 05/16] watchdog: lantiq: add device tree binding documentation

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Fri Jul 7 13:18:31 PDT 2017


On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 2:01 PM, Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> wrote:
>
>
> On 07/07/2017 04:08 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 12:40:40AM +0200, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
>>> The binding was not documented before, add the documentation now.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>
>>> ---
>>>  .../devicetree/bindings/watchdog/lantiq-wdt.txt    | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
>>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/lantiq-wdt.txt
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/lantiq-wdt.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/lantiq-wdt.txt
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 000000000000..c3967feebb6c
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/watchdog/lantiq-wdt.txt
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
>>> +Lantiq WTD watchdog binding
>>> +============================
>>> +
>>> +This describes the binding of the Lantiq watchdog driver.
>>> +
>>> +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> +Required properties:
>>> +- compatible                : Should be one of
>>> +                            "lantiq,wdt"
>>> +                            "lantiq,xrx100-wdt"
>>> +                            "lantiq,xrx200-wdt"
>>> +                            "lantiq,falcon-wdt"
>>> +- lantiq,rcu                : A phandle to the RCU syscon (required for
>>> +                      "lantiq,falcon-wdt", "lantiq,xrx200-wdt" and
>>> +                      "lantiq,xrx100-wdt")
>>> +
>>> +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> +Example for the watchdog on the xRX200 SoCs:
>>> +            watchdog at 803f0 {
>>> +                    compatible = "lantiq,xrx200-wdt", "lantiq,xrx100-wdt";
>>
>> This is still mismatched. If the example is correct, then the compatible
>> list should be:
>>
>> "lantiq,wdt"
>> "lantiq,xrx100-wdt"
>> "lantiq,xrx200-wdt", "lantiq,xrx100-wdt"
>> "lantiq,falcon-wdt"
>>
>> You can also remove "lantiq,xrx200-wdt" from the driver if you want as
>> "lantiq,xrx100-wdt" is good enough to match on.
>>
>> Rob
>>
> Ok thank you.
>
> All the features that are supported by the wtd drivers use the same
> register offsets on the xrx100 and xrx200 SoCs. I added the xrx200 only
> if in the future we find some mismatch and I want to be able to use some
> other code for this SoC.

Yes, the dts should have the xrx200 compatible. The driver can use the
xrx100 one until you need it.

> In this case I would then list complete compatible line which should be
> used for this SoC in the description of the compatible line, is that
> correct?

Yes.

Rob



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