Re: [PATCH v2 06/23] thermal: armada: convert driver to syscon register accesses

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Hi Miquel,

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 05:12:22PM +0200, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> Until recently, only one register was referenced in MVEBU thermal IP
> node. Recent changes added a second entry pointing to another
> register right next to it. We cannot know for sure that we will not
> have to access other registers. That will be actually the case when
> overheat interrupt feature will come, where it will be needed to access
> DFX registers in the same area.
> 
> This approach is not scalable so intead of adding consinuously memory
> areas in the DT (and change de DT bindings, while keeping backward

s/de/the/

> compatibility), move the thermal node into a wider syscon from which it
> will be possible to also configure the thermal interrupt.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx>

baruch

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