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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 2/5] dt-bindings: soc: add document for rockchip reboot notifier driver
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 09:17:37AM +0800, Andy Yan wrote:
> Hi Rob:
>
> On 2015年11月19日 06:59, Rob Herring wrote:
> >On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 05:53:30PM +0800, Andy Yan wrote:
> >>Add devicetree binding document for rockchip reboot nofifier driver
> >Just reading the subject this is way too specific to the Linux driver
> >needs rather than a h/w description. Please don't create fake DT nodes
> >just to bind to drivers. Whatever &pmu is is probably what should have
> >the DT node. Let the driver for it create child devices if you need
> >that.
>
> This is note a fake DT nodes, we really need it to tell the driver
> which register to use to store the reboot mode. Because rockchip
> use different register file to store the reboot mode on different
> platform, on rk3066,rk3188, rk3288,it use one of the PMU register, on
> the incoming RK3036, it use one of the GRF register, and it use one of
> the PMUGRF register for arm64 platform rk3368. On the other hand, the
> PMU/GRF/PMUGRF register file are mapped as "syscon", then referenced
> by other DT nodes by phandle. So maybe let it as a separate DT node
> here
> is better.

In that case you should probably implement a reboot notifier in each of
the drivers you list and depending on the generation of the SoC. You can
easily parameterize this by matching on the compatible string.

Thierry
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