Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:06:25 +0800 | From | Hongbo Zhang <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v10 2/3] DMA: Freescale: Add new 8-channel DMA engine device tree nodes |
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On 09/26/2013 10:28 AM, David Gibson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 08:46:32PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote: >> On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 15:35 +0800, Hongbo Zhang wrote: >>> By the way, I know maybe it is difficult, but why not introduce a >>> document of maintaining rules for the dt binding docs? we have dedicated >>> maintainers for this part now. Description language from one submitter >>> cannot satisfy every reviewer/maintainer, for a reg property, is it >>> necessary to say "offset and length", >> Don't say "offset and length". It's both redundant with the base >> definition of the reg property, and overly specific because it makes >> assumptions about how the parent node's ranges are set up (sometimes we >> want to be that specific, but usually not).
Thanks for your answer Scott. In fact my questions are mainly sample questions to file the necessary rules of dt binding. > To look at it another way, the format of the 'reg' property is defined > by the parent bus's binding, not the binding of the node itself. > Whatever the rule is, if it is reasonable and accepted, just as I said, we need to file it.
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