Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] power: reset: document LTC2952 poweroff support

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Thu Oct 09 2014 - 12:09:55 EST


On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 04:07:56PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 03:50:42PM +0100, Frans Klaver wrote:
> > From: René Moll <linux@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: René Moll <linux@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Tjerk Hofmeijer <tjerk.hofmeijer@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Frans Klaver <frans.klaver@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > .../bindings/power/reset/ltc2952-poweroff.txt | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/reset/ltc2952-poweroff.txt
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/reset/ltc2952-poweroff.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/reset/ltc2952-poweroff.txt
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..c3f3d9e
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/reset/ltc2952-poweroff.txt
> > @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
> > +Binding for the LTC2952 PowerPath controller
> > +
> > +This chip is used to externally trigger a system shut down. Once the trigger
> > +has been sent, the chips watchdog has to be reset to gracefully shut down.
>
> s/chips/chip's/
>
> > If +the Linux systems decides to shut down, it powers off the platform
> > via the +poweroff signal.
>
> This sentence can go; the binding should describe the hardware rather
> than the Linux behaviour.
>
Maybe find an operating system independent wording and describe what the
implementation should do. Or is that out of scope as well ?

Thanks,
Guenter
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