Re: Fwd: [PATCH 7/8] watchdog: davinci: add "clocks" property

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Mon Nov 25 2013 - 07:15:41 EST


On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:59:45AM +0000, ivan.khoronzhuk wrote:
> On 11/23/2013 07:57 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 November 2013, ivan.khoronzhuk wrote:
> >> @@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ Required properties:
> >>
> >> - reg : Should contain WDT registers location and length
> >>
> >> +- clocks: phandle reference to the controller clock.
> >> + Required only for Keystone arch.
> >> + See clock-bindings.txt
> >> +
> >> Optional properties:
> >>
> >> - timeout-sec: Contains the watchdog timeout in seconds
> >
> > I think it should really be listed under "Optional properties" and the
> > reference to Keystone removed. Note how the binding would need
> > to change otherwise if another platform started to use the clock, which
> > is a little silly.
> >
> > Arnd
> >
>
> Ok, I'll move clocks property under "Optional properties" and describe it
> as following:
>
> Optional properties:
> - timeout-sec : Contains the watchdog timeout in seconds
> - clocks: phandle reference to the controller clock.
> Needed if platform uses clocks.
> See clock-bindings.txt

Nit: clocks aren't just phandles, they have a clock-specifier too (which
might be 0 cells).

Otherwise this looks fine to me.

Mark.
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