Re: [PATCH 5.2 v2 2/2] dt-binding: edac: add NPCM ECC documentation

From: Rob Herring
Date: Tue Jul 09 2019 - 11:48:30 EST


On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 3:50 AM George Hung (æåæ)
<George.Hung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Rob,
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Behalf Of Rob Herring
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2019 9:41 AM
> > To: George Hung
> > Cc: Mark Rutland; Linus Walleij; Tali Perry; paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx;
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> > linux-edac; Patrick Venture; Nicolas Ferre; linux-kernel; James Morse; Greg
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> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.2 v2 2/2] dt-binding: edac: add NPCM ECC
> > documentation
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 10:12:53PM +0800, George Hung wrote:
> > > Add device tree documentation for Nuvoton BMC ECC
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: George Hung <ghung.quanta@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > .../bindings/edac/npcm7xx-sdram-edac.txt | 17
> > +++++++++++++++++
> > > 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
> > > create mode 100644
> > > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/edac/npcm7xx-sdram-edac.txt
> > >
> > > diff --git
> > > a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/edac/npcm7xx-sdram-edac.txt
> > > b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/edac/npcm7xx-sdram-edac.txt
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 000000000000..dd4dac59a5bd
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/edac/npcm7xx-sdram-edac.txt
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
> > > +Nuvoton NPCM7xx SoC EDAC device driver
> > > +
> > > +The Nuvoton NPCM7xx SoC supports DDR4 memory with/without ECC and
> > the
> > > +driver uses the EDAC framework to implement the ECC detection and
> > corrtection.
> > > +
> > > +Required properties:
> > > +- compatible: should be "nuvoton,npcm7xx-sdram-edac"
> >
> > Is this for the whole SDRAM controller or just ECC related registers?
> > In the former case, the naming should just reflect the block name and not a
> > Linux term.
>
> Sorry for confused naming, the address space is for the whole memory controller registers indeed,
> but the driver only uses the ECC related registers.
> Should I change the name to "nuvoton,npcm7xx-edac" ?

No, you should drop the 'edac' part. The DT describes the h/w, not
what one driver (currently) uses.

Rob