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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 6/9] ARM: mvebu: add pinctrl device in DT for Armada 370/XP SoCs
Le Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:23:19 -0600,
Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> a écrit :

> On 09/10/2012 02:39 AM, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> > From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
> >
> > The Armada 370 and XP SoCs have configurable muxing for a certain
> > number of their pins, controlled through a pinctrl driver.
>
> Hmmm. I'd be tempted just to put the entire node definition there;
> putting in a .dtsi file just to share the reg property doesn't seem
> especially useful.

When you say "here" you're mentioning the SoC-specific .dtsi files (i.e
the ones in PATCH 7/9 and PATCH 8/9), correct?

> > The 'compatible' property is defined in the SoC-specific .dtsi files,
> > since the compatible string identifies the number of pins and other
> > SoC-specific properties.
>
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-370-xp.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-370-xp.dtsi
>
> > + pinctrl@d0018000 {
>
> If this is the only pinctrl instance, you'd typically name the node just
> "pinctrl", since the "@d0018000" isn't needed to get unique node names.

Ack.

> > + reg = <0xd0018000 0x38>;
> > + #address-cells = <1>;
> > + #size-cells = <1>;
> > + ranges;
>
> What is "ranges" for; this isn't a memory-mapped bus, right?

Ack.

Best regards,

Thomas
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