From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Loc Ho <lho@apm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
"olof@lixom.net" <olof@lixom.net>,
"tj@kernel.org" <tj@kernel.org>,
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"dmilburn@redhat.com" <dmilburn@redhat.com>,
"jcm@redhat.com" <jcm@redhat.com>,
"patches@apm.com" <patches@apm.com>, Tuan Phan <tphan@apm.com>,
Suman Tripathi <stripathi@apm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 2/4] Documentation: Add documentation for APM X-Gene SoC SATA host controller DTS binding
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 21:10:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5905127.tqJ3nFt5cj@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPw-ZT=wJVQ2Qw47Ehgu6rJZ4HkpADrGuhZr8Yjf4XA6z+-xbA@mail.gmail.com>
On Wednesday 15 January 2014 12:04:02 Loc Ho wrote:
>
> >> +- clocks : Reference to the clock entry.
> >> +- phys : PHY reference with parameter 0.
> >
> > The specific value of the phy-specifier shouldn't matter to this
> > binding. What should matter is what it logically corresponds to.
>
> I not quite following this. Are you suggest that I drop the value 0.
> In the binding, one needs to specify the mode of operation - 0 is for
> SATA. Can you explain more?
The SATA device should not care what the argument for the PHY
device is. You could connect the same device to another PHY
that has a different set of arguments, which is the whole point
of abstracting it.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-15 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-15 7:11 [PATCH v9 0/4] ata: Add APM X-Gene SoC SATA host controller support Loc Ho
2014-01-15 7:11 ` [PATCH v9 1/4] ata: Export required functions by APM X-Gene SATA driver Loc Ho
2014-01-15 7:11 ` [PATCH v9 2/4] Documentation: Add documentation for APM X-Gene SoC SATA host controller DTS binding Loc Ho
2014-01-15 7:11 ` [PATCH v9 3/4] ata: Add APM X-Gene SoC SATA host controller driver Loc Ho
2014-01-15 7:11 ` [PATCH v9 4/4] arm64: Add APM X-Gene SoC SATA host controller DTS entries Loc Ho
2014-01-15 11:18 ` [PATCH v9 2/4] Documentation: Add documentation for APM X-Gene SoC SATA host controller DTS binding Mark Rutland
2014-01-15 20:04 ` Loc Ho
2014-01-15 20:10 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2014-01-15 21:08 ` Loc Ho
2014-01-15 21:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-01-15 22:07 ` Loc Ho
2014-01-15 23:59 ` Loc Ho
2014-01-16 10:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
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