[PATCH v2 2/4] dt-bindings: arm: Add binding document for Coresight Control Unit device.
JieGan
quic_jiegan at quicinc.com
Sun Jul 7 17:47:58 PDT 2024
On Fri, Jul 05, 2024 at 11:07:22AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 05/07/2024 11:00, Jie Gan wrote:
> > Add binding document for Coresight Control Unit device.
>
> <form letter>
> Please use scripts/get_maintainers.pl to get a list of necessary people
> and lists to CC (and consider --no-git-fallback argument). It might
> happen, that command when run on an older kernel, gives you outdated
> entries. Therefore please be sure you base your patches on recent Linux
> kernel.
>
> Tools like b4 or scripts/get_maintainer.pl provide you proper list of
> people, so fix your workflow. Tools might also fail if you work on some
> ancient tree (don't, instead use mainline) or work on fork of kernel
> (don't, instead use mainline). Just use b4 and everything should be
> fine, although remember about `b4 prep --auto-to-cc` if you added new
> patches to the patchset.
> </form letter>
>
> Or stop developing on some old tree. It's some sort of weird pattern in
> entire Qualcomm Coresight - everything developed on old kernels.
>
> You must work on latest mainline or maintainer or linux-next tree, not
> some old Qualcomm tree. Your v5.15, v5.19, v6.4 or v6.8 or whatever you
> have there: BIG NOPE.
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jie Gan <quic_jiegan at quicinc.com>
> > ---
>
> Subject: it never ends with full stop.
>
> A nit, subject: drop second/last, redundant "bindings". The
> "dt-bindings" prefix is already stating that these are bindings.
> See also:
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.7-rc8/source/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.rst#L18
>
> > + items:
> > + - const: apb_pclk
>
> Drop _pclk
>
> > +
> > + reg-names:
>
> Please follow DTS coding style about order of properties.
>
> > + items:
> > + - const: ccu-base
> > +
> > + in-ports:
> > + $ref: /schemas/graph.yaml#/properties/ports
> > +
> > + unevaluatedProperties:
>
> This was never tested and it cannot reliably work.
>
> Sorry, this is waste of our time.
>
>
Sorry about that. I will re-check the dt-binding file.
> > + patternProperties:
> > + '^port(@[0-7])?$':
> > + description: Input connections from CoreSight Trace bus
> > + $ref: /schemas/graph.yaml#/properties/port
> > +
> > + properties:
> > + qcom,ccu-atid-offset:
> > + description:
> > + Offset to the Coresight Control Unit component's ATID register
> > + that is used by specific TMC ETR. The ATID register can be programed based
> > + on the trace id to filter out specific trace data which gets into ETR buffer.
> > + $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> > +
> > +required:
> > + - compatible
> > + - reg
> > + - in-ports
> > +
> > +additionalProperties: false
> > +
> > +examples:
> > + - |
> > + syscon at 1001000 {
>
> That's not a syscon.
>
> > + compatible = "qcom,coresight-ccu";
> > + reg = <0x1001000 0x1000>;
> > + reg-names = "ccu-base";
> > +
>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
>
Thanks,
Jie
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