Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] clocksource: sh_cmt: Document SoC specific bindings

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On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 09:51:27AM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> Thank you for the patch.
> 
> On Thursday 04 September 2014 09:55:19 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
> > a number of drivers for Renesas hardware. The purpose of this patch is to
> > update the Renesas R-Car Compare Match Timer (CMT) driver to follow this
> > convention.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > ---
> > * I plan to follow up with patches to use these new bindings in the
> >   dtsi files for the affected SoCs.
> > 
> > v2
> > * Reorder compat entries so more-specific entries and their fallbacks
> >   are grouped with the fallback entry coming last.
> > * Explicitly document fallback
> > ---
> >  .../devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,cmt.txt      | 44 ++++++++++++++++---
> >  1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,cmt.txt
> > b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,cmt.txt index
> > a17418b..7b44f4b 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,cmt.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/renesas,cmt.txt
> > @@ -11,15 +11,47 @@ datasheets.
> > 
> >  Required Properties:
> > 
> > -  - compatible: must contain one of the following.
> > -    - "renesas,cmt-32" for the 32-bit CMT
> > +  - compatible: must contain one or more of the following:
> > +    - "renesas,cmt-32-r8a7740" for the R8a7740 32-bit CMT
> > +		(CMT0)
> > +    - "renesas,cmt-32-sh7372" for the SH7372 32-bit CMT
> > +		(CMT0)
> > +    - "renesas,cmt-32-sh73a0" for the SH73a0 32-bit CMT
> > +		(CMT0)
> > +    - "renesas,cmt-32" for all 32-bit CMT without fast clock support
> >  		(CMT0 on sh7372, sh73a0 and r8a7740)
> > -    - "renesas,cmt-32-fast" for the 32-bit CMT with fast clock support
> > +		This is a fallback for the above renesas,cmt-32-* entries.
> > +
> > +    - "renesas,cmt-32-fast-r8a7740" for the R8A7740 32-bit CMT with fast
> > +		clock support (CMT[234])
> > +    - "renesas,cmt-32-fast-sh7372" for the SH7372 32-bit CMT with fast
> > +		clock support (CMT[234])
> > +    - "renesas,cmt-32-fast-sh73a0" for the SH73A0 32-bit CMT with fast
> > +		clock support (CMT[234])
> > +    - "renesas,cmt-32-fast" for all 32-bit CMT with fast clock support
> >  		(CMT[234] on sh7372, sh73a0 and r8a7740)
> > -    - "renesas,cmt-48" for the 48-bit CMT
> > +		This is a fallback for the above renesas,cmt-32-fast-* entries.
> > +
> > +    - "renesas,cmt-48-sh7372" for the SH7372 48-bit CMT
> > +		(CMT1)
> > +    - "renesas,cmt-48-sh73a0" for the SH73A0 48-bit CMT
> > +		(CMT1)
> > +    - "renesas,cmt-48-r8a7740" for the R8A7740 48-bit CMT
> > +		(CMT1)
> > +    - "renesas,cmt-48" for all non-second generation 48-bit CMT
> >  		(CMT1 on sh7372, sh73a0 and r8a7740)
> > -    - "renesas,cmt-48-gen2" for the second generation 48-bit CMT
> > +		This is a fallback for the above renesas,cmt-48-* entries.
> > +
> > +    - "renesas,cmt-48-r8a73a4" for the R8A73A4 48-bit CMT
> > +		(CMT[01])
> > +    - "renesas,cmt-48-r8a7790" for the R8A7790 48-bit CMT
> > +		(CMT[01])
> > +    - "renesas,cmt-48-r8a7791" for the R8A7791 48-bit CMT
> > +		(CMT[01])
> > +    - "renesas,cmt-48-gen2" for all second generation 48-bit CMT
> >  		(CMT[01] on r8a73a4, r8a7790 and r8a7791)
> > +		This is a fallback for the renesas,cmt-48-r8a73a4,
> > +		renesas,cmt-48-r8a7790 and renesas,cmt-48-gen2 entries.
> 
> If renesas,cmt-48-gen2 is a fallback for renesas,cmt-48-gen2, we'll have an 
> infinite loop :-) I suppose you meant
> 
> 		This is a fallback for the renesas,cmt-48-r8a73a4,
> 		renesas,cmt-48-r8a7790 and renesas,cmt-48-r8a7791 entries.

Yes, indeed. Thanks :)

> With that change,
> 
> Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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