Subject: [PATCH 1/7] dmaengine: st_fdma: Add STMicroelectronics FDMA DT binding documentation

From: [email-masked] (Lee Jones)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 08:12:36 +0100

On Tue, 25 Aug 2015, Peter Griffin wrote:

> Hi Vinod,
> 
> Thanks for reviewing.
> 
> On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, Vinod Koul wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 05:11:22PM +0100, Peter Griffin wrote:
> > > This patch adds the DT binding documentation for the FDMA constroller
> > > found on STi based chipsets from STMicroelectronics.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Ludovic Barre <[email-masked]>
> > > Signed-off-by: Peter Griffin <[email-masked]>
> > > ---
> > >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/st_fdma.txt | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 76 insertions(+)
> > >  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/st_fdma.txt
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/st_fdma.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/st_fdma.txt
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 0000000..1ec7470
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/st_fdma.txt
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
> > > +* STMicroelectronics Flexible Direct Memory Access Device Tree bindings
> > > +
> > > +The FDMA is a general-purpose direct memory access controller capable of
> > > +supporting 16 independent DMA channels. It accepts up to 32 DMA requests.
> > > +The FDMA is based on a Slim processor which require a firmware.
> > > +
> > > +* FDMA Controller
> > > +
> > > +Required properties:
> > > +- compatible	: Should be "st,fdma_mpe31"
> > > +- reg		: Should contain DMA registers location and length
> > > +- interrupts	: Should contain one interrupt shared by all channel
> > 
> > s/channel/channels
> 
> Will fix in v2.
> 
> > 
> > > +- dma-channels	: Number of channels supported by the controller
> > > +- #dma-cells	: Must be <3>.
> > 
> > any reason three?
> 
> Yes, it is documented further down in the file under DMA Client.
> 
> To make it clearer in V2 I could change to
> 
> "- #dma-cells	: Must be <3>. See DMA client section below"?

- #dma-cells	: Must be <3>
			1st cell: Phandle to       ... <blah>
			2nd cell: DMA channel      ... <blah>
			3rd cell: Flags describing ... <blah>   

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