On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 06:28:19AM +0100, Simon Horman wrote:
> In general Renesas hardware is not documented to the extent
> where the relationship between IP blocks on different SoCs can be assumed
> although they may appear to operate the same way. Furthermore the
> documentation typically does not specify a version for individual
> IP blocks. For these reasons a convention of using the SoC name in place
> of a version and providing SoC-specific compat strings has been adopted.
>
> Although not universally liked this convention is used in the bindings
> for the drivers a number of drivers for Renesas hardware. The purpose
> of this patch is to update the Renesas R-Car Multi-Function Timer Pulse
> Unit 2 (MTU2) driver to follow this convention.
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> * I plan to follow up with a patch patch to use the new binding in the
> dtsi files for the r7s72100 SoC.
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,mtu2.txt | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,mtu2.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,mtu2.txt
> index 917453f..ec4d334 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,mtu2.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,mtu2.txt
> @@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ are independent. The MTU2 hardware supports five channels indexed from 0 to 4.
>
> Required Properties:
>
> - - compatible: must contain "renesas,mtu2"
> + - compatible: must be one of the following.
Surely "one or more", follwing the example?
> + - "renesas,mtu2" for generic MTU2
s/generic/any/ to make it clearer this should be present in all lists
for the moment?
> + - "renesas,mtu2-r7s72100" for R7S72100 MTU2
It might make sense to move this above the "renesas,mtu2" entry to make
the ordering a bit clearer.
Cheers,
Mark.
>
> - reg: base address and length of the registers block for the timer module.
>
> @@ -26,7 +28,7 @@ Required Properties:
> Example: R7S72100 (RZ/A1H) MTU2 node
>
> mtu2: timer@fcff0000 {
> - compatible = "renesas,mtu2";
> + compatible = "renesas,mtu2-r7s72100", "renesas,mtu2";
> reg = <0xfcff0000 0x400>;
> interrupts = <0 139 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
> <0 146 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
> --
> 2.0.1
>
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