From: David Gibson <david-xT8FGy+AXnRB3Ne2BGzF6laj5H9X9Tb+@public.gmane.org>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Hongbo Zhang
<hongbo.zhang-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>,
Stephen Warren <swarren-3lzwWm7+Weoh9ZMKESR00Q@public.gmane.org>,
mark.rutland-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org,
devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
ian.campbell-Sxgqhf6Nn4DQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org,
pawel.moll-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org,
vinod.koul-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org,
linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
rob.herring-bsGFqQB8/DxBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org,
djbw-b10kYP2dOMg@public.gmane.org,
linuxppc-dev-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 2/3] DMA: Freescale: Add new 8-channel DMA engine device tree nodes
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:28:59 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130926022859.GL9625@voom.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1380159992.24959.248.camel-88ow+0ZRuxG2UiBs7uKeOtHuzzzSOjJt@public.gmane.org>
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On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 08:46:32PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 15:35 +0800, Hongbo Zhang wrote:
> > By the way, I know maybe it is difficult, but why not introduce a
> > document of maintaining rules for the dt binding docs? we have dedicated
> > maintainers for this part now. Description language from one submitter
> > cannot satisfy every reviewer/maintainer, for a reg property, is it
> > necessary to say "offset and length",
>
> Don't say "offset and length". It's both redundant with the base
> definition of the reg property, and overly specific because it makes
> assumptions about how the parent node's ranges are set up (sometimes we
> want to be that specific, but usually not).
To look at it another way, the format of the 'reg' property is defined
by the parent bus's binding, not the binding of the node itself.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-26 2:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-18 10:15 [PATCH v10 0/3] DMA: Freescale: Add support for 8-channel DMA engine hongbo.zhang-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg
2013-09-18 10:15 ` [PATCH v10 1/3] DMA: Freescale: revise device tree binding document hongbo.zhang
2013-09-18 10:15 ` [PATCH v10 2/3] DMA: Freescale: Add new 8-channel DMA engine device tree nodes hongbo.zhang
[not found] ` <1379499333-4745-3-git-send-email-hongbo.zhang-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-23 17:04 ` Stephen Warren
[not found] ` <524074A7.7000001-3lzwWm7+Weoh9ZMKESR00Q@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-24 10:30 ` Hongbo Zhang
[not found] ` <524169E3.7030408-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-24 17:31 ` Stephen Warren
2013-09-25 7:35 ` Hongbo Zhang
2013-09-26 1:46 ` Scott Wood
[not found] ` <1380159992.24959.248.camel-88ow+0ZRuxG2UiBs7uKeOtHuzzzSOjJt@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-26 2:28 ` David Gibson [this message]
[not found] ` <20130926022859.GL9625-1s0os16eZneny3qCrzbmXA@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-26 5:06 ` Hongbo Zhang
[not found] ` <1379499333-4745-1-git-send-email-hongbo.zhang-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-18 10:15 ` [PATCH v10 3/3] DMA: Freescale: update driver to support 8-channel DMA engine hongbo.zhang-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg
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