Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Feb 2022 18:53:28 +0100 | From | Pali Rohár <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/6] dt-bindings: Add 'slot-power-limit-milliwatt' PCIe port property |
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On Tuesday 22 February 2022 18:24:15 Marek Behún wrote: > On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 17:31:55 +0100 > Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org> wrote: > > > This property specifies slot power limit in mW unit. It is a form-factor > > and board specific value and must be initialized by hardware. > > > > Some PCIe controllers delegate this work to software to allow hardware > > flexibility and therefore this property basically specifies what should > > host bridge program into PCIe Slot Capabilities registers. > > > > The property needs to be specified in mW unit instead of the special format > > defined by Slot Capabilities (which encodes scaling factor or different > > unit). Host drivers should convert the value from mW to needed format. > > > > Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org> > > Signed-off-by: Marek Behún <kabel@kernel.org> > > This patch is not needed, the property already is described in > dtschema.
But dtschema with this property is not included in kernel and this file is the only in-kernel documentation. So updating it makes sense.
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