On 11/21/24 4:18 AM, Guillaume Stols wrote: > A new compatible is added to reflect the specialized version of the HDL > that is not covered by the IIO backend paradigm: We use the parallel It still is being used as an IIO backend, so I would leave out the phrase "that is not covered by the IIO backend paradigm". > interface to write the ADC's registers, and accessing this interface > requires to use ADI_AXI_REG_CONFIG_RD,ADI_AXI_REG_CONFIG_WR and > ADI_AXI_REG_CONFIG_CTRL in a custom fashion. > > Signed-off-by: Guillaume Stols <gstols@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/adi,axi-adc.yaml | 7 +++++++ > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/adi,axi-adc.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/adi,axi-adc.yaml > index e1f450b80db2..43bc0440c678 100644 > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/adi,axi-adc.yaml > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/adi,axi-adc.yaml > @@ -17,13 +17,20 @@ description: | > interface for the actual ADC, while this IP core will interface > to the data-lines of the ADC and handle the streaming of data into > memory via DMA. > + In some cases, the AXI ADC interface is used to perform specialized > + operation to a particular ADC, e.g access the physical bus through > + some special register to write ADC registers. > + In this case, a different compatible is used, and the driver behaves Quick, delete the word "driver" before Krzysztof sees it. :-p Joking aside, the devicetree only describes how things are wired up, it doesn't care how the driver uses the information. So we avoid mentioning anything about drivers in the bindings. > + slightly differently according to the special needs. > > https://wiki.analog.com/resources/fpga/docs/axi_adc_ip > + http://analogdevicesinc.github.io/hdl/library/axi_ad7606x/index.html > > properties: > compatible: > enum: > - adi,axi-adc-10.0.a > + - adi,axi-ad7606x > > reg: > maxItems: 1 > Since this new compatible also provides a bus in addition to the io-backend, I think we need some additional bindings to describe the child nodes for the ADC devices attached to the bus. I don't think there are any generic parallel-controller bindings like there are for SPI controllers, so we can't $ref: /schemas/spi/spi-controller.yaml# like we did for the similar case of adi,axi-ad3552r recently. But maybe something like this: properties: ... "#address-cells": const: 1 "#size-cells": const: 0 patternProperties: "^adc@[0-9a-f]+$": type: object additionalProperties: true properties: reg: maxItems: 1 required: - compatible - reg