Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Dec 2015 12:53:25 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: Add brcm,bcm63xx-regulator device tree binding |
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On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 12:45:50PM -0000, Simon Arlott wrote: > On Tue, December 1, 2015 22:16, Mark Brown wrote:
> > Why are these in the DT, I would expect that if this is a driver for a > > specific SoC all these properties would be known as a result of that.
> This is a driver for multiple SoCs with the same regulator control in > different places on different SoCs, so the location of it within the misc > register needs to be provided in the DT:
> BCM6362: > #define MISC_BASE 0xb0001800 /* Miscellaneous Registers */ > uint32 miscIddqCtrl; /* 0x48 */
This is the sort of thing you can pick up from the SoC compatible strings. As things stand there is zero content in this driver that relates to this SoC.
> The mask is used as there's one bit per regulator in the register, but > there's more than one way to express this in the DT:
I wouldn't expect to see it in the device tree at all for a device specific driver. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |