Re: [PATCH v8 01/13] Documentation: Add SLIMbus summary

From: Srinivas Kandagatla
Date: Tue Dec 05 2017 - 17:02:03 EST


Thanks for the review comments.

On 01/12/17 10:27, Jonathan NeuschÃfer wrote:
Hi, some small nits below.

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 05:41:48PM +0000, srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: Sagar Dharia <sdharia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

SLIMbus (Serial Low Power Interchip Media Bus) is a specification
developed by MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface) alliance.
SLIMbus is a 2-wire implementation, which is used to communicate with
peripheral components like audio-codec.

The summary of SLIMbus and API is documented in the 'summary' file.

Signed-off-by: Sagar Dharia <sdharia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Documentation/driver-api/slimbus/index.rst | 15 ++++
Documentation/driver-api/slimbus/summary.rst | 108 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 123 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/slimbus/index.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/slimbus/summary.rst

It would probably make sense to Cc the documentation maintainers/mailing
list on this patch (AFAICS, you didn't do that).

Yep, I will include them while sending next version.

When do you plan to add slimbus to Documentation/driver-api/index.rst?

that's good point, I will fix this in next version.


+framework allows drivers to bind when corresponding devices report their
+presence on the bus.
+However, it is possible that the driver needs to be probed
+first so that it can enable corresponding SLIMbus device (e.g. power it up and/or
+take it out of reset). To support that behavior, the framework allows drivers
+to probe first as well (e.g. using standard DeviceTree compatbility field).

Typo: s/compatbility/compatibility/
Yep, Will fix in next version.


+---------------
+The framework supports APIs to exchange control-information with a SLIMbus
+device. APIs can be synchronous or asynchronous.
+From controller's perspective, multiple buffers can be queued to/from
+hardware for sending/receiving data using slim_ctrl_buf circular buffer.
+The header file <linux/slimbus.h> has more documentation about messaging APIs.

Once the kerneldoc documentation (i.e. the /** ... */ comments in the
source) is included somewhere, I think it would make sense to make
slim_ctrl_buf a clickable link to the struct's documentation.
Sure, I will explore this side of it before i send next version.

thanks,
srini


Thanks,
Jonathan NeuschÃfer