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From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: Martin Sperl <kernel@martin.sperl.org>
Cc: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>, Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-spi@vger.kernel.org,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] dt/bindings: bcm2835: add binding documentation for bcm2835-aux
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 21:12:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55F8EC22.7020909@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9D45476C-88E2-4F76-AB55-9D0C7194E29C@martin.sperl.org>

On 09/04/2015 01:26 AM, Martin Sperl wrote:
> 
>> On 26.08.2015, at 03:44, Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 08/24/2015 02:40 AM, kernel@martin.sperl.org wrote:
>>
>>> +Example:
>>> +
>>> +aux_enable: aux_enable@0x7e215004 {
>>> +	compatible = "bcrm,bcm2835-aux";
>>> +	reg = <0x7e215004 0x04>;
>>
>> I'd expect that to be <0x7e215000 0x8>;
> 
> The reason is that we just handle enable with this driver,
> which just requires access to the 0x7e215004 register.
> 
> The 0x7e215000 register (interrupt mask) could be used by a
> cascaded interrupt-controller, but as the spi and uart drivers
> can run with shared interrupts this is not a necessity.

The DT is supposed to describe the HW, not any particular SW's use of
the HW. If the HW block has 2 registers, so must the DT reg property.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-16  4:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-24  8:40 [PATCH v4 0/5] bcm2835: auxiliar device support for spi kernel
2015-08-24  8:40 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] soc: bcm2835: auxiliar devices enable infrastructure kernel
2015-08-26  1:52   ` Stephen Warren
2015-08-24  8:40 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] ARM: bcm2835: add DT for the bcm2835 auxiliar devices kernel
2015-08-24  8:40 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] dt/bindings: bcm2835: add binding documentation for bcm2835-aux kernel
2015-08-26  1:44   ` Stephen Warren
2015-09-04  8:26     ` Martin Sperl
2015-09-16  4:12       ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2015-09-16  5:25         ` Martin Sperl
2015-08-24  8:40 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] spi: bcm2835: new driver implementing auxiliar spi1/spi2 on the bcm2835 soc kernel
2015-08-26  1:56   ` Stephen Warren
2015-08-24  8:40 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] dt/bindings: bcm2835: Add binding documentation for auxiliar spi devices kernel
2015-08-26  1:49   ` Stephen Warren

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