On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 09:20:32AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 02:16:55PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote: >> > On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:20:41AM +0900, 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 >> > > most drivers for Renesas hardware. The purpose of this patch is to >> > > update the Renesas USB DMA Controller driver to follow this convention. >> > > >> > > Cc: devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > > Cc: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> > > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> > > >> > > --- >> > > * r8a7792 (R-Car V2H) is omitted as my reading of the documentation >> > > is that Renesas USB-DMAC does not exist on that SoC >> > > * r8a7795 (R-Car H2) is omitted as its unclear to me on the compatibility >> > > of USB-DMAC that SoC >> > > >> > > * Once this has been merged I intend to provide follow-up patches >> > > to use these new compat strings in the relevant dtsi files. >> > > --- >> > > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/renesas,usb-dmac.txt | 9 +++++++-- >> > > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> > > >> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/renesas,usb-dmac.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/renesas,usb-dmac.txt >> > > index 040f365954cc..3bb624e10615 100644 >> > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/renesas,usb-dmac.txt >> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/renesas,usb-dmac.txt >> > > @@ -1,7 +1,12 @@ >> > > * Renesas USB DMA Controller Device Tree bindings >> > > >> > > Required Properties: >> > > -- compatible: must contain "renesas,usb-dmac" >> > > +- compatible: "renesas,usb-dmac-<soctype>", "renesas,usb-dmac" as fallback. >> > > + Examples with soctypes are: >> > > + - "renesas,usb-dmac-r8a7790" (R-Car H2) >> > > + - "renesas,usb-dmac-r8a7791" (R-Car M2-W) >> > > + - "renesas,usb-dmac-r8a7793" (R-Car M2-N) >> > > + - "renesas,usb-dmac-r8a7794" (R-Car E2) >> > >> > Weren't you changing the order of SoC and block names on new bindings? >> >> Could you clarify what the desired order is? >> My intention is for these bindings to use the preferred order. > > ping Not speaking for Rob, but I think he means e.g. "renesas,r8a7790-usb-dmac". Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dmaengine" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html