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From: thierry.reding@gmail•com (Thierry Reding)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 3/7] PWM: add pwm-stm32 DT bindings
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 12:23:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161205112347.GF19891@ulmo.ba.sec> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+M3ks4-JQNGYtdiXNj1J701x0njKD0_bf4yN1mLSjEcT2Z=6A@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 12:08:32PM +0100, Benjamin Gaignard wrote:
> 2016-12-05 7:53 GMT+01:00 Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail•com>:
> > On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 11:17:18AM +0100, Benjamin Gaignard wrote:
> >> Define bindings for pwm-stm32
> >>
> >> version 2:
> >> - use parameters instead of compatible of handle the hardware configuration
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@st•com>
> >> ---
> >>  .../devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm-stm32.txt          | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>  1 file changed, 38 insertions(+)
> >>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm-stm32.txt
> >>
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm-stm32.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm-stm32.txt
> >> new file mode 100644
> >> index 0000000..575b9fb
> >> --- /dev/null
> >> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm-stm32.txt
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
> >> +STMicroelectronics PWM driver bindings for STM32
> >
> > Technically this bindings describe devices, so "driver binding" is a
> > somewhat odd wording. Perhaps:
> >
> >         STMicroelectronics STM32 General Purpose Timer PWM bindings
> >
> > ?
>  done
> 
> >
> >> +
> >> +Must be a sub-node of STM32 general purpose timer driver
> >> +Parent node properties are describe in ../mfd/stm32-general-purpose-timer.txt
> >
> > Again, "driver parent node" is odd. Perhaps:
> >
> >         Must be a sub-node of an STM32 General Purpose Timer device tree
> >         node. See ../mfd/stm32-general-purpose-timer.txt for details about
> >         the parent node.
> >
> > ?
> 
> done
> 
> >
> >> +Required parameters:
> >> +- compatible:                Must be "st,stm32-pwm"
> >> +- pinctrl-names:     Set to "default".
> >> +- pinctrl-0:                 List of phandles pointing to pin configuration nodes
> >> +                     for PWM module.
> >> +                     For Pinctrl properties, please refer to [1].
> >
> > Your indentation and capitalization are inconsistent. Also, please refer
> > to the pinctrl bindings by relative path and inline, rather than as a
> > footnote reference.
> 
> OK
> 
> >
> >> +
> >> +Optional parameters:
> >> +- st,breakinput:     Set if the hardware have break input capabilities
> >> +- st,breakinput-polarity: Set break input polarity. Default is 0
> >> +                      The value define the active polarity:
> >> +                       - 0 (active LOW)
> >> +                       - 1 (active HIGH)
> >
> > Could we fold these into a single property? If st,breakinput-polarity is
> > not present it could simply mean that there is no break input, and if it
> > is present you don't have to rely on a default.
> 
> I need to know if I have to activate breakinput feature and on which level
> I will rewrite it like that:
> Optional parameters:
> - st,breakinput-polarity-high: Set if break input polarity is active
> on high level.
> - st,breakinput-polarity-high: Set if break input polarity is active
> on low level.

How is that different from a single property:

	Optional properties:
	- st,breakinput-polarity: If present, a break input is available
	    for the channel. In that case the property value denotes the
	    polarity of the break input:
	    - 0: active low
	    - 1: active high

?

> > The pwm- prefix is rather redundant since the node is already named pwm.
> > Why not simply st,channels? Or simply channels, since it's not really
> > anything specific to this hardware.
> >
> > Come to think of it, might be worth having a discussion with our DT
> > gurus about what their stance is on using the # as prefix for numbers
> > (such as in #address-cells or #size-cells). This could be #channels to
> > mark it more explicitly as representing a count.
> >
> >> +- st,32bits-counter: Set if the hardware have a 32 bits counter
> >> +- st,complementary:  Set if the hardware have complementary output channels
> >
> > "hardware has" and also maybe mention explicitly that this is a boolean
> > property. Otherwise people might be left wondering what it should be set
> > to. Or maybe word this differently to imply that it's boolean:
> >
> >         - st,32bits-counter: if present, the hardware has a 32 bit counter
> >         - st,complementary: if present, the hardware has a complementary
> >                             output channel
> 
> I found a way to detect, at probe time, the number of channels, counter size,
> break input capability and complementary channels so I will remove
> "st,breakinput", "st,32bits-counter", "st,complementary" and "st,pwm-num-chan"
> parameters

Oh hey, that's very neat. I suppose in that case my comment above about
the break input polarity is somewhat obsoleted. Still I think you won't
need two properties. Instead you can follow what other similar
properties have done: choose a default (often low-active) and have a
single optional property to override the default (often high-active).

In your case:

	- st,breakinput-active-high: Some channels have a break input,
	    whose polarity will be active low by default. If this
	    property is present, the channel will be configured with an
	    active high polarity for the break input.

Thierry
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-05 11:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-02 10:17 [PATCH v3 0/7] Add pwm and IIO timer drivers for stm32 Benjamin Gaignard
2016-12-02 10:17 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] MFD: add bindings for stm32 general purpose timer driver Benjamin Gaignard
2016-12-02 10:17 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] MFD: add " Benjamin Gaignard
2016-12-02 14:29   ` Lee Jones
2016-12-02 10:17 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] PWM: add pwm-stm32 DT bindings Benjamin Gaignard
2016-12-02 14:23   ` Lee Jones
2016-12-05  6:53   ` Thierry Reding
2016-12-05  8:35     ` Lee Jones
2016-12-05 10:50       ` Thierry Reding
2016-12-05 11:08     ` Benjamin Gaignard
2016-12-05 11:23       ` Thierry Reding [this message]
2016-12-05 12:12         ` Benjamin Gaignard
2016-12-05 12:21           ` Thierry Reding
2016-12-02 10:17 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] PWM: add pwm driver for stm32 plaftorm Benjamin Gaignard
2016-12-05  7:23   ` Thierry Reding
2016-12-05  8:31     ` Lee Jones
2016-12-05 11:02     ` Benjamin Gaignard
2016-12-05 11:30       ` Thierry Reding
2016-12-02 10:17 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] IIO: add bindings for stm32 timer trigger driver Benjamin Gaignard
2016-12-02 13:59   ` Lee Jones
2016-12-02 14:23     ` Benjamin Gaignard
2016-12-03  9:35       ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-12-02 10:17 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] IIO: add STM32 " Benjamin Gaignard
2016-12-02 13:57   ` Lee Jones
2016-12-02 10:17 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] ARM: dts: stm32: add stm32 general purpose timer driver in DT Benjamin Gaignard
2016-12-02 13:22   ` Lee Jones
2016-12-03  9:42     ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-12-05  8:54       ` Lee Jones
2016-12-05 16:09     ` Alexandre Torgue
2016-12-06  9:48       ` Lee Jones
2016-12-06  9:56         ` Alexandre Torgue
2016-12-06 12:54           ` Lee Jones
2016-12-02 13:41   ` Alexandre Torgue
2016-12-03  9:45   ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-12-03  9:32 ` [PATCH v3 0/7] Add pwm and IIO timer drivers for stm32 Jonathan Cameron

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