Re: [PATCH V10 1/4] dt-bindings: fsl: scu: add thermal binding

From: Rob Herring
Date: Wed Feb 27 2019 - 18:55:02 EST


On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 08:46:21AM +0000, Anson Huang wrote:
> NXP i.MX8QXP is an ARMv8 SoC with a Cortex-M4 core inside as
> system controller, the system controller is in charge of system
> power, clock and thermal sensors etc. management, Linux kernel
> has to communicate with system controller via MU (message unit)
> IPC to get temperature from thermal sensors, this patch adds
> binding doc for i.MX system controller thermal driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anson Huang <Anson.Huang@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes since V9:
> - change #thermal-sensor-cells value in example to 1, since there are other
> thermal sensors inside system controller, it is just because there are still
> some issue, so system controller does NOT expose them for now, they could
> be exposed later, so it should be 1 from HW perspective.
> ---
> .../devicetree/bindings/arm/freescale/fsl,scu.txt | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/freescale/fsl,scu.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/freescale/fsl,scu.txt
> index 72d481c..855270b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/freescale/fsl,scu.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/freescale/fsl,scu.txt
> @@ -122,6 +122,21 @@ RTC bindings based on SCU Message Protocol
> Required properties:
> - compatible: should be "fsl,imx8qxp-sc-rtc";
>
> +Thermal bindings based on SCU Message Protocol
> +------------------------------------------------------------
> +
> +Required properties:
> +- compatible: Should be :
> + "fsl,imx8qxp-sc-thermal"
> + followed by "fsl,imx-sc-thermal";
> +
> +- #thermal-sensor-cells: See Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/thermal.txt
> + for a description.
> +
> +- imx,sensor-resource-id: A single integer for single thermal zone's resource ID or
> + an array of integers to specify each thermal zone's sensor
> + resource ID.

Can't you put the resource ids in the thermal-sensor cells? Why do you
need to list them here?

Rob