Re: [PATCH 1/2] pwm: sifive: Add DT documentation for SiFive PWM Controller

Yash Shah
2019-01-16T09:21:31Z

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 1:41 AM Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> this is v3, right? It is helpful to point this out to ease reviewing.

Yes, it is v3. Will take care of this in v4.

>
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 01:52:43PM +0530, Yash Shah wrote:
> > DT documentation for PWM controller added with updated compatible
> > string.
>
> Not sure what was updated here. But assuming this is compared to v2 this
> is not a helpful info in the commit log.

Ok, will remove the 'updated compatible string' part.

>
> > Signed-off-by: Wesley W. Terpstra <wesley@sifive.com>
> > [Atish: Compatible string update]
> > Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Yash Shah <yash.shah@sifive.com>
> > ---
> > .../devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm-sifive.txt | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm-sifive.txt
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm-sifive.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm-sifive.txt
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..e0fc22a
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm-sifive.txt
> > @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
> > +SiFive PWM controller
> > +
> > +Unlike most other PWM controllers, the SiFive PWM controller currently only
> > +supports one period for all channels in the PWM. This is set globally in DTS.
> > +The period also has significant restrictions on the values it can achieve,
> > +which the driver rounds to the nearest achievable frequency.
> > +
> > +Required properties:
> > +- compatible: Please refer to sifive-blocks-ip-versioning.txt
>
> While the description was too verbose in v2, this is too short. You
> should at least mention something like "sifive,pwmX" and
> "sifive,$cpuname-pwm" (or how ever that scheme works).

Will mention the above.

>
> > +- reg: physical base address and length of the controller's registers
> > +- clocks: Should contain a clock identifier for the PWM's parent clock.
> > +- #pwm-cells: Should be 2.
> > + The first cell is the PWM channel number
> > + The second cell is the PWM polarity
>
> I'd drop these two lines and refer to bindings/pwm/pwm.txt instead.

Will be done.

>
> > +- sifive,approx-period-ns: the driver will get as close to this period as it can
>
> As already said for v2: I'd drop "approx-".

Sure, will be done.

>
> > +- interrupts: one interrupt per PWM channel
> > +
> > +PWM RTL that corresponds to the IP block version numbers can be found
> > +here:
> > +
> > +https://github.com/sifive/sifive-blocks/tree/master/src/main/scala/devices/pwm
> > +
> > +Further information on the format of the IP
> > +block-specific version numbers can be found in
> > +Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sifive/sifive-blocks-ip-versioning.txt
> > +
> > +Examples:
> > +
> > +pwm: pwm@10020000 {
> > + compatible = "sifive,fu540-c000-pwm","sifive,pwm0";
> > + reg = <0x0 0x10020000 0x0 0x1000>;
> > + clocks = <&tlclk>;
> > + interrupt-parent = <&plic>;
> > + interrupts = <42 43 44 45>;
> > + #pwm-cells = <2>;
> > + sifive,approx-period-ns = <1000000>;
> > +};
> > --
> > 1.9.1
> >
> >
>
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Thanks for the comments.