From: xuejiancheng@huawei.com (xuejiancheng)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/9] ARM: dts: add dts files for hi3519-demb board
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 16:59:14 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56693EE2.20501@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2721289.3GUub5trUg@wuerfel>
On 2015/12/10 16:04, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 10 December 2015 14:32:05 xuejiancheng wrote:
>>>
>>> This is not what I meant. You have to use "syscon" as the most generic
>>> "compatible" value here, but should add a machine specific string
>>> as a more specific one. "hisilicon,sysctrl" is not appropriate because
>>> it does not identify the IP block uniquely, you can only use that
>>> in combination with another more specific string.
>>
>> OK. I will use "hisilicon,hi3519-syscon" and "syscon" as the compatible value
>> for the sysctrl node in hi3519.dtsi.
>>
>
> Why hisilicon,hi3519-syscon instead of hisilicon,hi3519-sysctrl?
> Is this not called a sysctrl at all in the datasheet then?
It is OK to use hisilicon,hi3519-sysctrl.
I thought syscon was more commonly used as abbr. of system-controller in the kernel code.
> Arnd
>
> .
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-10 8:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-03 2:44 [PATCH v2 4/9] ARM: dts: add dts files for hi3519-demb board Jiancheng Xue
2015-12-03 9:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-12-04 2:27 ` xuejiancheng
2015-12-04 10:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-12-07 6:37 ` xuejiancheng
2015-12-08 3:28 ` zhangfei
2015-12-08 3:54 ` xuejiancheng
2015-12-09 15:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-12-10 6:32 ` xuejiancheng
2015-12-10 8:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-12-10 8:59 ` xuejiancheng [this message]
2015-12-10 9:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
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