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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 1/4] dt-bindings: power: reset: add document for reboot-mode driver
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Hi Krzysztof:

On 2016年03月24日 10:27, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> Interesting idea. While looking at the code I stumped over few things below:
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Andy Yan <andy.yan@rock-chips.com> wrote:
>> add device tree bindings document for reboot-mode driver
> s/add/Add/
> Plus a full-stop at the end of sentence.
okay, I will do it in next version.
>> Signed-off-by: Andy Yan <andy.yan@rock-chips.com>
>> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
>>
>> binding
> What is that?

This will be removed
>
>> ---
>>
>> Changes in v6:
>> - fix a typo with "property"
>> - describe property "mask" more clear
>>
>> Changes in v5:
>> - delete a unnecessary blank line in syscon-reboot-mode.txt
>> - rename mode-fastoboot to mode-bootloader in syscon-reboot-mode.txt
>> - rename macro BOOT_LOADER to BOOT_BL_DOWNLOAD, which gives a more clear mean
>>
>> Changes in v4:
>> - remove mode-maskrom
>> - rename mode-fastboot to mode-bootloader to keep compatible with the exiting Android device
>>
>> Changes in v3:
>> - descirbe all reboot mode as properity instead of subnode
>>
>> Changes in v2: None
>> Changes in v1: None
>>
>> .../bindings/power/reset/reboot-mode.txt | 24 +++++++++++++++
>> .../bindings/power/reset/syscon-reboot-mode.txt | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 2 files changed, 59 insertions(+)
>> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/reset/reboot-mode.txt
>> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/reset/syscon-reboot-mode.txt
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/reset/reboot-mode.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/reset/reboot-mode.txt
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..3457949
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/reset/reboot-mode.txt
>> @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
>> +Generic reboot mode core map driver
>> +
>> +This driver get reboot mode arguments and call the write
>> +interface to stores the magic value in special register
> s/stores/store/
>> +or ram . Then the bootloader can read it and take different
> s/ram ./ram./
>
>> +action according the argument stored.
> according to
>
>> +
>> +All mode properties are vendor specific, it is a indication to tell
>> +the bootloder what to do when the system reboot, and should be named
> s/bootloder/bootloader/
> s/reboot/reboots/
>
>> +as mode-xxx = <magic> (xxx is mode name).
>> +
> These are examples? If yes then add a note, like:
>
> +For example modes common on Android platform:

Thanks for your carefully review, all these will be fixed in next
version.
>> +- mode-normal: Normal reboot mode, system reboot with command "reboot".
>> +- mode-recovery: Android Recovery mode, it is a mode to format the device or update a new image.
>> +- mode-bootloader: Android fastboot mode, it's a mode to re-flash partitions on the Android based device.
>> +- mode-loader: A bootloader mode, it's a mode used to download image on Rockchip platform,
>> + usually used in development.
> The "bootloader" and "loader" examples are very confusing. Maybe just
> name the first one as "mode-fastboot" and second as
> "rockchip-download"? The term "loader" does not look for me as
> anything related to uploading/downloading new firmware.

About these two modes, we have a long discussion with Rob and John [0]
We keep them as what you see now to keep compatibility with exiting
devices.

[0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/2/128
>
>> +
>> +Example:
>> + reboot-mode {
>> + mode-normal = <BOOT_NORMAL>;
>> + mode-recovery = <BOOT_RECOVERY>;
>> + mode-bootloader = <BOOT_FASTBOOT>;
>> + mode-loader = <BOOT_BL_DOWNLOAD>;
>> + }
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/reset/syscon-reboot-mode.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/reset/syscon-reboot-mode.txt
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..eb28469
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/reset/syscon-reboot-mode.txt
>> @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
>> +SYSCON reboot mode driver
>> +
>> +This driver get reboot mode magic value form reboot-mode driver
> s/get/gets/
>
>> +and stores it in a SYSCON mapped register. Then the bootloader
>> +can read it and take different action according to the magic
>> +value stored.
>> +
>> +This DT node should be represented as a sub-node of a "syscon", "simple-mfd"
>> +node.
>> +
>> +Required properties:
>> +- compatible: should be "syscon-reboot-mode"
>> +- offset: offset in the register map for the storage register (in bytes)
>> +
>> +Optional property:
>> +- mask: bits mask of the bits in the register to store the reboot mode magic value,
>> + default set to 0xffffffff if missing.
>> +
>> +The rest of the properties should follow the generic reboot-mode discription
> s/discription/description/
>
> Please, run the spell check...
>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
>
>
>
>



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