Re: [PATCH v3 09/13] dt/bindings: ti,edma: Remove redundant properties from documentation

[Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>]

+ DT maintainers

On Friday 16 May 2014 05:47 PM, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> From CCCFG register of eDMA3 we can get all the needed information for the
> driver about the IP:
> Number of channels: NUM_DMACH
> Number of regions: NUM_REGN
> Number of slots (PaRAM sets): NUM_PAENTRY
> Number of TC/EQ: NUM_EVQUE
> 
> The ti,edma-regions; ti,edma-slots and dma-channels in DT are
> redundant since the very same information can be obtained from the HW.
> The mentioned properties are deprecated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com>

DT maintainers,

Can I get an ack on deprecation of these bindings? We are using hardware
to detect the same properties so it should not cause any backward
compatibility issue when moving to newer kernels while keeping the same DTB.

Link to last mail on this topic as part of v2 thread:

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1405.1/05152.html

Thanks,
Sekhar

> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/ti-edma.txt | 13 +++++++------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/ti-edma.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/ti-edma.txt
> index 68ff2137bae7..5ba525a10035 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/ti-edma.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/ti-edma.txt
> @@ -2,11 +2,8 @@ TI EDMA
>  
>  Required properties:
>  - compatible : "ti,edma3"
> -- ti,edma-regions: Number of regions
> -- ti,edma-slots: Number of slots
>  - #dma-cells: Should be set to <1>
>                Clients should use a single channel number per DMA request.
> -- dma-channels: Specify total DMA channels per CC
>  - reg: Memory map for accessing module
>  - interrupt-parent: Interrupt controller the interrupt is routed through
>  - interrupts: Exactly 3 interrupts need to be specified in the order:
> @@ -17,6 +14,13 @@ Optional properties:
>  - ti,hwmods: Name of the hwmods associated to the EDMA
>  - ti,edma-xbar-event-map: Crossbar event to channel map
>  
> +Deprecated properties:
> +Listed here in case one wants to boot an old kernel with new DTB. These
> +properties might need to be added to the new DTS files.
> +- ti,edma-regions: Number of regions
> +- ti,edma-slots: Number of slots
> +- dma-channels: Specify total DMA channels per CC
> +
>  Example:
>  
>  edma: edma@49000000 {
> @@ -26,9 +30,6 @@ edma: edma@49000000 {
>  	compatible = "ti,edma3";
>  	ti,hwmods = "tpcc", "tptc0", "tptc1", "tptc2";
>  	#dma-cells = <1>;
> -	dma-channels = <64>;
> -	ti,edma-regions = <4>;
> -	ti,edma-slots = <256>;
>  	ti,edma-xbar-event-map = /bits/ 16 <1 12
>  					    2 13>;
>  };
>