Re: [PATCH RESEND] Documentation: devicetree: Fix Xilinx VDMA specification

From: Vinod Koul
Date: Fri Dec 05 2014 - 11:47:43 EST


On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:26:03AM -0800, Sören Brinkmann wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-11-12 at 07:03PM +0100, Andreas Färber wrote:
> > Am 12.11.2014 um 16:57 schrieb Sören Brinkmann:
> > > On Wed, 2014-11-12 at 02:51PM +0100, Andreas Färber wrote:
> > >> The specification requires xlnx,data-width, but example and driver use
> > >> xlnx,datawidth. Change the specification to match the implementation.
> > >
> > > Isn't this the wrong way around? The bindings are considered API, so
> > > shouldn't the driver be fixed to match the spec?
> >
> > In theory, patch review should've never let the two differ... ;)
> >
> > It's not my driver, so I fixed the perceived inconsistency the least
> > invasive way; Michal and Srikanth seemed to concur at the time.
> >
> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/4620261/
> >
> > > Are there already dts files out there using either of these options?
> >
> > In upstream, no. microblaze and virtex440 use a
> > xlnx,include-datawidth-matching-0 property as precedence for the
> > spelling, whereas there is an fsl,data-width and an unused msix-data-width.
> >
> > Downstream, yes: Beyond my own patch derived from the Parallella tree,
> > there's some in the ADI tree. None in the Xilinx tree on quick check.
> >
> > I haven't encountered any using the documented xlnx,data-width - but
> > this patch was authored pre 3.17, haven't ran a full Web search again.
>
> grepping through linux-next shows some usage of xlnx,datawidth, but
> only the single hit in Documentation for xlnx,data-width.
> Other than VDMA the other hit seems to be just some DT
> documentation which I can't find a driver for...
> Anyhow, this patch is probably the best way of fixing this.
the driver had issues so want applied, I havent seen repot though.
Will apply this now

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~Vinod

>
> Reviewed-by: Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks,
> Sören

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