From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/6] Documentation: add dts binding for X-Gene reboot dts node. Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 19:42:37 +0100 Message-ID: <12661649.81PZ6nxnIe@wuerfel> References: <1389135041-16062-1-git-send-email-fkan@apm.com> <201401140706.13406.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:49906 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751485AbaANSnH (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jan 2014 13:43:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: Feng Kan , Mark Rutland , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" On Tuesday 14 January 2014 10:35:33 Feng Kan wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 January 2014, Feng Kan wrote: > >> > >> > > >> > Is this related to the standard ARM SCU that manages multiprocessor > >> > systems, or a different unit that uses the same name? > >> > >> FKAN: You mean the snoop control unit in ARM. This is different from > >> that, the main function of this unit is clk control. > > > > Hmm, if it's *mainly* used for clocks, you may actually just want to > > have a driver in drivers/clk for it that also performs a few of the > > other things on the side. > > > > FKAN: there among other thing, reset controls, fuse id's and deep sleep > resume registers... I like your idea of using syscon, we can have a node > for SCU and then the specific driver to parse out the needed chunk to use. Yes, sounds good. Arnd