Re: [PATCH 5/6] pinctrl: tegra: Add DT binding for io pads control

From: Jon Hunter
Date: Tue May 03 2016 - 09:33:39 EST



On 03/05/16 13:54, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 03 May 2016 06:14 PM, Jon Hunter wrote:
>> On 02/05/16 13:17, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
>>> +
>>> +The voltage supported on the pads are 1.8V and 3.3V. The enums are
>>> defined as:
>>> + For 1.8V, use TEGRA_IO_PAD_POWER_SOURCE_1800000UV
>>> + For 3.3V, use TEGRA_IO_PAD_POWER_SOURCE_3300000UV
>> Are these still necessary now that the driver is using uV? Can't we just
>> use integer values for 1800000 and 3300000 in the DTS directly?
>>
> The config param and value are packed in u32 with 16bit each So we can
> not make uV in 16bit until we do conversion of uV->mV.
> Hence suggestion came from Stephen that we can have enum for Nvidia
> specific and what actually it supports by HW. HW does not support any
> other voltage.

Ah yes I see.

>
>>> +Required subnode-properties:
>>> +==========================
>>> +- pins : An array of strings. Each string contains the name of an IO
>>> pads. Valid
>>> + values for these names are listed below.
>> Please see my previous comments.
>
> This is taken from other dt binding docs for description. We can have
> array of string.

OK.

> As all value of pins are not supporting all property and hence I
> explicitly wrote under properties.

I don't find it very clear. I thought all pins support the low power
modes so I think it is clearer to list all the pin names under the pins
description.

>>> +Optional subnode-properties:
>>> +==========================
>>> +-nvidia,power-source-voltage: Integer. The voltage level of IO
>>> pads. The
>> I think I prefer nvidia,io-voltage or something. You can describe what
>> this means in this doc. In fact, the current description here does not
>> explicitly state that this voltage, is the voltage the pad is configured
>> to operate at versus the voltage of the IO rail.
>
> Linus suggested this dt property name to make more readable and generic
> and meaningful with other property :power-source.

OK.

Jon