Re: [RFC] docs: add a reset controller chapter to the driver API docs

[Randy Dunlap]

On 10/22/19 9:45 AM, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> Add initial reset controller API documentation. This is mostly indented

                                                                 intended

> to describe the concepts to users of the consumer API, and to tie the
> kerneldoc comments we already have into the driver API documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/driver-api/index.rst |   1 +
>  Documentation/driver-api/reset.rst | 217 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 218 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/reset.rst
> 


> diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/reset.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/reset.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..210ccd97c5f0
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/reset.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,217 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> +
> +====================
> +Reset controller API
> +====================
> +
> +Introduction
> +============
> +
> +Reset controllers are central units that control the reset signals to multiple
> +peripherals.
> +The reset controller API is split in two parts:

                 I prefer            into two parts:

> +the `consumer driver interface <#consumer-driver-interface>`__ (`API reference
> +<#reset-consumer-api>`__), which allows peripheral drivers to request control
> +over their reset input signals, and the `reset controller driver interface
> +<#reset-controller-driver-interface>`__ (`API reference
> +<#reset-controller-driver-api>`__), which is used by drivers for reset
> +controller devices to register their reset controls to provide them to the
> +consumers.
> +
> +While some reset controller hardware units also implement system restart
> +functionality, restart handlers are out of scope for the reset controller API.
> +
> +Glossary
> +--------
> +
> +The reset controller API uses these terms with a specific meaning:
> +
> +Reset line
> +
> +    Physical reset line carrying a reset signal from a reset controller
> +    hardware unit to a peripheral module.
> +
> +Reset control
> +
> +    Control method that determines the state of one or multiple reset lines.
> +    Most commonly this is a single bit in reset controller register space that
> +    either allows direct control over the physical state of the reset line, or
> +    is self-clearing and can be used to trigger a predetermined pulse on the
> +    reset line.
> +    In more complicated reset controls, a single trigger action can launch a
> +    carefully timed sequence of pulses on multiple reset lines.
> +
> +Reset controller
> +
> +    A hardware module that provides a number of reset controls to control a
> +    number of reset lines.
> +
> +Reset consumer
> +
> +    Peripheral module or external IC that is put into reset by the signal on a
> +    reset line.
> +
> +Consumer driver interface
> +=========================
> +
> +This interface offers a similar API to the kernel clock framework.

or:
  This interface provides an API that is similar to the kernel clock framework.

> +Consumer drivers use get and put operations to acquire and release reset
> +controls.
> +Functions are provided to assert and deassert the controlled reset lines,
> +trigger reset pulses, or to query reset line status.
> +
> +When requesting reset controls, consumers can use symbolic names for their
> +reset inputs, which are mapped to an actual reset control on an existing reset
> +controller device by the core.
> +
> +A stub version of this API is provided when the reset controller framework is
> +not in use in order to minimise the need to use ifdefs.
> +
> +Shared and exclusive resets
> +---------------------------

[snip]

> +
> +API reference
> +=============
> +
> +The reset controller API is documented here in two parts:
> +the `reset consumer API <#reset-consumer-api>`__ and the `reset controller
> +driver API <#reset-controller-driver-api>`__.
> +
> +Reset consumer API
> +------------------
> +
> +Reset consumers can control a reset line using an opaque reset control handle,
> +which can be obtained from :c:func:`devm_reset_control_get_exclusive` or
> +:c:func:`devm_reset_control_get_shared`.
> +Given the reset control, consumers can call :c:func:`reset_control_assert` and
> +:c:func:`reset_control_deassert`, trigger a reset pulse using
> +:c:func:`reset_control_reset`, or query the reset line status using
> +:c:func:`reset_control_status`.
> +
> +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/reset.h
> +   :internal:
> +
> +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/reset/core.c
> +   :functions: reset_control_reset
> +               reset_control_assert
> +               reset_control_deassert
> +               reset_control_status
> +               reset_control_acquire
> +               reset_control_release
> +               reset_control_put
> +               of_reset_control_get_count
> +               of_reset_control_array_get
> +               devm_reset_control_array_get
> +               reset_control_get_count
> +
> +Reset controller driver API
> +---------------------------
> +
> +Reset controller drivers are supposed to implement the necessary functions in
> +a static constant structure :c:type:`reset_control_ops`, allocate and fill out
> +a struct :c:type:`reset_controller_dev`, and register it using
> +:c:func:`devm_reset_controller_register`.
> +
> +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/reset-controller.h
> +   :internal:
> +
> +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/reset/core.c
> +   :functions: of_reset_simple_xlate
> +               reset_controller_register
> +               reset_controller_unregister
> +               devm_reset_controller_register
> +               reset_controller_add_lookup

These header and source files cause a number of kernel-doc warnings
for which I am sending a patch.

thanks.
-- 
~Randy