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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
To: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Cc: rob.herring@calxeda.com, pawel.moll@arm.com,
	mark.rutland@arm.com, ian.campbell@citrix.com,
	grant.likely@linaro.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, nobuhiro.iwamatsu.yj@renesas.com,
	rob@landley.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] sh_eth: add device tree support
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 22:01:11 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <522F5E67.8070006@cogentembedded.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <522F37A7.90804@wwwdotorg.org>

Hello.

On 09/10/2013 07:15 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:

>>> Do you need any clocks properties, IP block reset signals, power domains?

>>     Currently not.

> What does "currently" mean? Does that mean that the Linux driver simply
> doesn't touch those entities at present?

    There's Ether clock but the driver doesn't manipulate it directly, 
assumingly it does this thru the runtime PM interface. As for the others, I 
simply don't know.

> If so, that's not enough to say
> that those entities should not be described in the DT binding. We should
> strive to make the binding completely describe all aspects of the HW,
> irrespective of whether a particular driver happens to use that
> information at present.

    There's no DT representation for the clocks in SH-Mobile subarch yet.
The same applies to the other entities you mentioned.

WBR, Sergei


  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-10 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-06 23:43 [PATCH v2 2/2] sh_eth: add device tree support Sergei Shtylyov
2013-09-09 21:02 ` Stephen Warren
2013-09-10 14:39   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-09-10 15:15     ` Stephen Warren
2013-09-10 18:01       ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2013-09-10 20:07         ` Stephen Warren
2013-09-10 21:48           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-09-10 22:21             ` Stephen Warren
2013-10-16 22:41               ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-10-17 16:41                 ` Mark Rutland

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