Re: [PATCH] tty/serial: atmel_serial: Fix device tree documentation

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2014-04-22 20:42 GMT+02:00 Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Ludovic Desroches
> <ludovic.desroches@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 09:39:59AM +0200, Richard Genoud wrote:
>>> On 14/04/2014 17:22, Ludovic Desroches wrote:
>>> > Hi Richard,
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 04:58:02PM +0200, Richard Genoud wrote:
>>> >> RTS pin is an active low pin.
>>> >> For now, this doesn't change anything as the ACTIVE_LOW flag is not
>>> >> handled in atmel_serial, but it will be in 3.16.
>>> >>
>>> >> Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> >> ---
>>> >>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/atmel-usart.txt | 2 +-
>>> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>> >>
>>> >> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/atmel-usart.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/atmel-usart.txt
>>> >> index 17c1042b2df8..2f7aad71b3c9 100644
>>> >> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/atmel-usart.txt
>>> >> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/atmel-usart.txt
>>> >> @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Example:
>>> >>            clock-names = "usart";
>>> >>            atmel,use-dma-rx;
>>> >>            atmel,use-dma-tx;
>>> >> -          rts-gpios = <&pioD 15 0>;
>>> >> +          rts-gpios = <&pioD 15 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
>>> >
>>> > I was told we should not use macros here. If it is still the truth:
>>> >
>>> > rts-gpios = <&pioD 15 1>;
>>>
>>> But I'd really like to know if macros are forbidden in DT documentation and why...
>>> Because, IMHO, <&pioD 15 1> talks less that <&pioD 15 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>.
>>> Which is a shame in a documentation.
>>
>> I don't remember who told me that but the reason was that device tree
>> should not depend on Linux and macros are relative to Linux.
>
> These macros are not Linux-specific.
>
> They come from include/dt-bindings/* which is part of the OS-neutral
> bindings, just in a machine-readable form.

Thanks for this clarification !

Richard.
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