[PATCH 3/4 v2] mtd/powerpc: Remove unused "device-width" property

[PATCH 3/4 v2] mtd/powerpc: Remove unused "device-width" property

[Stefan Roese]

This property is unused. It's not handled as all by the physmap_of
driver. So let's remove it from the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
CC: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
---
 Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/mtd-physmap.txt |    3 ---
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/mtd-physmap.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/mtd-physmap.txt
index cd474f9..ab1115e 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/mtd-physmap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/mtd-physmap.txt
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ file systems on embedded devices.
  - reg : Address range of the flash chip
  - bank-width : Width (in bytes) of the flash bank.  Equal to the
    device width times the number of interleaved chips.
- - device-width : (optional) Width of a single flash chip.  If
-   omitted, assumed to be equal to 'bank-width'.
  - #address-cells, #size-cells : Must be present if the flash has
    sub-nodes representing partitions (see below).  In this case
    both #address-cells and #size-cells must be equal to 1.
@@ -48,7 +46,6 @@ Example:
 		compatible = "amd,am29lv128ml", "cfi-flash";
 		reg = <ff000000 01000000>;
 		bank-width = <4>;
-		device-width = <1>;
 		#address-cells = <1>;
 		#size-cells = <1>;
 		fs@0 {
-- 
1.6.2.2

Re: [PATCH 3/4 v2] mtd/powerpc: Remove unused "device-width" property

[Scott Wood]

Stefan Roese wrote:
> This property is unused. It's not handled as all by the physmap_of
> driver. So let's remove it from the documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
> CC: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>

The device tree describes the hardware, not what Linux happens to do 
with it at the moment.

I'd rather keep it.

-Scott

Re: [PATCH 3/4 v2] mtd/powerpc: Remove unused "device-width" property

[Stefan Roese]

On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Scott Wood wrote:
> Stefan Roese wrote:
> > This property is unused. It's not handled as all by the physmap_of
> > driver. So let's remove it from the documentation.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
> > CC: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
>
> The device tree describes the hardware, not what Linux happens to do
> with it at the moment.
>
> I'd rather keep it.

I find it rather confusing to "see" such bindings that are not supported. One 
could expect something to happen/change after defining this property. So in 
general I think adding unsupported properties to the Documentation is a bad 
idea. But that's just my 2 cents. If the general opinion is to keep this 
property, I'll keep it in of course.

Best regards,
Stefan

Re: [PATCH 3/4 v2] mtd/powerpc: Remove unused "device-width" property

[Grant Likely]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Scott Wood wrote:
>> Stefan Roese wrote:
>> > This property is unused. It's not handled as all by the physmap_of
>> > driver. So let's remove it from the documentation.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
>> > CC: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
>>
>> The device tree describes the hardware, not what Linux happens to do
>> with it at the moment.
>>
>> I'd rather keep it.
>
> I find it rather confusing to "see" such bindings that are not supported. One
> could expect something to happen/change after defining this property. So in
> general I think adding unsupported properties to the Documentation is a bad
> idea. But that's just my 2 cents. If the general opinion is to keep this
> property, I'll keep it in of course.

I say keep it.  It is a valid way to describe the hardware regardless
of whether or not the driver supports it yet.

g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.