Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: hisilicon: fix binding document of mdio

From: huangdaode
Date: Tue Nov 17 2015 - 20:44:43 EST


On 2015/11/16 23:20, Rob Herring wrote:
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 05:38:24PM +0800, huangdaode wrote:
This patch explains the occasion of "hisilcon,mdio" and
"hisilicon,hns-mdio" according to Arnd's comments.
and reformat it according to comments from Rob<robh@xxxxxxxxxx>.

chang log:

v2:
1) reformat the style.
2) make it more clearity.

v1:
initial version.

Signed-off-by: huangdaode <huangdaode@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-mdio.txt | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-mdio.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-mdio.txt
index 9c23fdf..4942d20 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-mdio.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-mdio.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
Hisilicon MDIO bus controller
Properties:
-- compatible: "hisilicon,mdio","hisilicon,hns-mdio".
+- compatible: can be one of:
+ "hisilicon,hns-mdio"
+ "hisilicon,mdio"
+ "hisilicon,hns-mdio" is recommendly to be used for hip05 and later SOCs,
s/recommendly/recommended/

+ while "hisilicon,mdio" is optional for backwards compatibility, only
+ support for hip04 Soc.
...compatibility only on hip04 SOC.

- reg: The base address of the MDIO bus controller register bank.
- #address-cells: Must be <1>.
- #size-cells: Must be <0>. MDIO addresses have no size component.
--
1.9.1

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Agreed.
Will fix this in v3 patch.

thanks
Daode.

.



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Best Regards
Daode Huang


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