Re: [PATCH v5 4/7] Documentation: devicetree: net: add NS2 bindings to amac

From: Jon Mason
Date: Wed Nov 02 2016 - 13:25:22 EST


On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 08:18:51PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On 11/02/2016 08:08 PM, Jon Mason wrote:
>
> >Clean-up the documentation to the bgmac-amac driver, per suggestion by
> >Rob Herring, and add details for NS2 support.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jon.mason@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >---
> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/brcm,amac.txt | 16 +++++++++++-----
> > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/brcm,amac.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/brcm,amac.txt
> >index ba5ecc1..2fefa1a 100644
> >--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/brcm,amac.txt
> >+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/brcm,amac.txt
> >@@ -2,11 +2,17 @@ Broadcom AMAC Ethernet Controller Device Tree Bindings
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Required properties:
> >- - compatible: "brcm,amac" or "brcm,nsp-amac"
> >- - reg: Address and length of the GMAC registers,
> >- Address and length of the GMAC IDM registers
> >- - reg-names: Names of the registers. Must have both "amac_base" and
> >- "idm_base"
> >+ - compatible: "brcm,amac"
> >+ "brcm,nsp-amac"
> >+ "brcm,ns2-amac"
> >+ - reg: Address and length of the register set for the device. It
> >+ contains the information of registers in the same order as
> >+ described by reg-names
> >+ - reg-names: Names of the registers.
> >+ "amac_base": Address and length of the GMAC registers
> >+ "idm_base": Address and length of the GMAC IDM registers
> >+ "nicpm_base": Address and length of the NIC Port Manager
> >+ registers (required for Northstar2)
>
> Why this "_base" suffix? It looks redundant...

Yes. Rob Herring pointed out the same thing. It is ugly, but follows
the existing binding.

Thanks,
Jon


>
> [...]
>
> MBR, Sergei
>