On Fri, 2014-04-04 at 09:17PM +0200, Gerhard Sittig wrote: > On Thu, 2014-04-03 at 10:59 -0700, Soren Brinkmann wrote: > > > > Add device tree binding documentation for the Cadence I2C controller. > > > > [ ... ] > > > > --- /dev/null > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-cadence.txt > > @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ > > +Binding for the Cadence I2C controller > > + > > +Required properties: > > + compatible: Compatibility string. Must be 'cdns,i2c-r1p10'. > > + clocks: From common clock bindings. Phandle to input clock. > > the usual complaint: 'clocks' items are not just phandles (your > example even suggests this); either adjust the description to > something correct, or just refer to the common clock bindings to > not duplicate their description I'll figure out something. > > but I guess the I2C controller's binding should explicitly state > which clocks are required, and you might want to consider > 'clock-names', too There is only one clock input. There is no need to overcomplicate things by adding clock-names. > > > + > > +Optional properties: > > + clock-frequency: Desired operating frequency, in Hz, of the bus (actual may > > + be lower). Defaults to 400000 if not specified. > > is the value default a feature of the Linux implementation, or > consciously designed to be in the binding spec? and I agree that > the default should be the standard I2C speed instead of fast mode I remove the note regarding the default. It's implementation. > > > + > > +Example: > > + > > + i2c@e0004000 { > > + compatible = "cdns,i2c-r1p10"; > > + clocks = <&clkc 38>; > > + interrupts = <0 25 4>; > > + reg = <0xE0004000 0x1000>; > > + clock-frequency = <400000>; > > + #address-cells = <1>; > > + #size-cells = <0>; > > + }; > > use lower case hex digits, consider symbolic identifiers for > clocks and interrupt flags I don't care about the case of those hex digits, but where does it say that they have to be lower case? Will somebody complain about usage of lower case chars next? > > the example has many more properties than the binding describes, > the additional items aren't even optional -- you might want to > refer to a few more common or general bindings Well, this is common across binding documentation. Can we please get consistency in this? I see plenty of binding docs that are documented this way, not mentioning much regarding such common properties. Sören -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html