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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] Add Support for MCAN in AM654x-idk
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On 1/23/20 12:46 PM, Faiz Abbas wrote:
> Marc,
>
> On 23/01/20 4:47 pm, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
>> On 1/22/20 9:03 AM, Faiz Abbas wrote:
>>> This series adds driver patches to support MCAN in TI's AM654x-idk.
>>>
>>> Faiz Abbas (3):
>>> dt-bindings: net: can: m_can: Add Documentation for stb-gpios
>>> can: m_can: m_can_platform: Add support for enabling transceiver
>>> through the STB line
>>> arm64: defconfig: Add Support for Bosch M_CAN controllers
>>>
>>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/m_can.txt | 2 ++
>>> arch/arm64/configs/defconfig | 3 +++
>>> drivers/net/can/m_can/m_can_platform.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>>> 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
>>
>> What about adding support for xceiver-supply as done in several other
>> drivers (ti_hecc.c, flexcan.c, mcp251x.c)? And using this for the stb line?
>
> Looks like you had given this feedback a long time ago and I forgot
> about it. Sorry about that :-)
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1006238/
>
> But now that I think about it, its kinda weird that we are modelling
> part of the transceiver as a separate child node
> (Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/can-transceiver.txt) and the
> other parts as a regulator.

We need a regulator, as there are dual phy chips with a single enable line.

> Anyone looking at the transceiver node would figure thats where the
> enable gpio/regulator node needs to go instead of the parent node.
> Shouldn't we have all transceiver properties under the same node?

Feel free to add support for the regulator to the transceiver node and
convert the existing drivers to accept both bindings.

Marc

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