Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] dt/bindings: Add bindings for Broadcom STB DRAM Sensors

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Wed Jun 21 2017 - 16:45:14 EST


On 06/19/2017 10:26 AM, Markus Mayer wrote:
> On 18 June 2017 at 07:05, Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 03:37:09PM -0700, Markus Mayer wrote:
>>> From: Markus Mayer <mmayer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Provide bindings for the Broadcom STB DDR PHY Front End (DPFE).
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Markus Mayer <mmayer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> .../devicetree/bindings/soc/bcm/brcm,dpfe-cpu.txt | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
>>> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/bcm/brcm,dpfe-cpu.txt
>>
>> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks, Rob.
>
> To bring up the previous discussion regarding enumerating multiple
> nodes (so far we need two dpfe nodes for some platforms), how should
> we go about this? We were originally proposing to use "cell-index",
> but you said this was OpenFirmware only and couldn't be used in device
> tree. See https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/4/27/574.
>
> We do need to use something, because the driver needs to know if it
> should be accessing dpfe0 or dpfe1. What should we use?

Would aliases work for instance for that purpose?
--
Florian