Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] dt-bindings: power: reset: add document for reboot-mode driver

Krzysztof Kozlowski
2016-03-24T02:27:37Z

Interesting idea. While looking at the code I stumped over few things below:

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Andy Yan <andy.yan@rock-chips.com> wrote:
> add device tree bindings document for reboot-mode driver

s/add/Add/
Plus a full-stop at the end of sentence.

>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Yan <andy.yan@rock-chips.com>
> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
>
> binding

What is that?

>
> ---
>
> Changes in v6:
> - fix a typo with "property"
> - describe property "mask" more clear
>
> Changes in v5:
> - delete a unnecessary blank line in syscon-reboot-mode.txt
> - rename mode-fastoboot to mode-bootloader in syscon-reboot-mode.txt
> - rename macro BOOT_LOADER to BOOT_BL_DOWNLOAD, which gives a more clear mean
>
> Changes in v4:
> - remove mode-maskrom
> - rename mode-fastboot to mode-bootloader to keep compatible with the exiting Android device
>
> Changes in v3:
> - descirbe all reboot mode as properity instead of subnode
>
> Changes in v2: None
> Changes in v1: None
>
> .../bindings/power/reset/reboot-mode.txt | 24 +++++++++++++++
> .../bindings/power/reset/syscon-reboot-mode.txt | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 59 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/reset/reboot-mode.txt
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/reset/syscon-reboot-mode.txt
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/reset/reboot-mode.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/reset/reboot-mode.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..3457949
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/reset/reboot-mode.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
> +Generic reboot mode core map driver
> +
> +This driver get reboot mode arguments and call the write
> +interface to stores the magic value in special register
s/stores/store/
> +or ram . Then the bootloader can read it and take different

s/ram ./ram./

> +action according the argument stored.

according to

> +
> +All mode properties are vendor specific, it is a indication to tell
> +the bootloder what to do when the system reboot, and should be named

s/bootloder/bootloader/
s/reboot/reboots/

> +as mode-xxx = <magic> (xxx is mode name).
> +

These are examples? If yes then add a note, like:

+For example modes common on Android platform:

> +- mode-normal: Normal reboot mode, system reboot with command "reboot".
> +- mode-recovery: Android Recovery mode, it is a mode to format the device or update a new image.
> +- mode-bootloader: Android fastboot mode, it's a mode to re-flash partitions on the Android based device.
> +- mode-loader: A bootloader mode, it's a mode used to download image on Rockchip platform,
> + usually used in development.

The "bootloader" and "loader" examples are very confusing. Maybe just
name the first one as "mode-fastboot" and second as
"rockchip-download"? The term "loader" does not look for me as
anything related to uploading/downloading new firmware.

> +
> +Example:
> + reboot-mode {
> + mode-normal = <BOOT_NORMAL>;
> + mode-recovery = <BOOT_RECOVERY>;
> + mode-bootloader = <BOOT_FASTBOOT>;
> + mode-loader = <BOOT_BL_DOWNLOAD>;
> + }
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/reset/syscon-reboot-mode.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/reset/syscon-reboot-mode.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..eb28469
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/reset/syscon-reboot-mode.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
> +SYSCON reboot mode driver
> +
> +This driver get reboot mode magic value form reboot-mode driver

s/get/gets/

> +and stores it in a SYSCON mapped register. Then the bootloader
> +can read it and take different action according to the magic
> +value stored.
> +
> +This DT node should be represented as a sub-node of a "syscon", "simple-mfd"
> +node.
> +
> +Required properties:
> +- compatible: should be "syscon-reboot-mode"
> +- offset: offset in the register map for the storage register (in bytes)
> +
> +Optional property:
> +- mask: bits mask of the bits in the register to store the reboot mode magic value,
> + default set to 0xffffffff if missing.
> +
> +The rest of the properties should follow the generic reboot-mode discription

s/discription/description/

Please, run the spell check...

Best regards,
Krzysztof