Re: [PATCH v2 05/28] dt-bindings: net: Add support for QMC HDLC

From: Conor Dooley
Date: Thu Jul 27 2023 - 05:54:13 EST


On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 11:09:48AM +0200, Herve Codina wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 09:19:59 +0100
> Conor Dooley <conor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 05:02:01PM +0200, Herve Codina wrote:

> If needed, I can change to:
> title: QMC (QUICC Multichannel Controller) HDLC
> Let me known if it is better to you.

If it were me writing the binding, I'd probably use something like
"Freescale/NXP QUICC Multichannel Controller (QMC) HDLC", but it is not
a big deal, I just had a "wtf is this" moment :)



> > > + fsl,qmc-chan:
> >
> > Perhaps I am just showing my lack of knowledge in this area, but what is
> > fsl specific about wanting a reference to the channel of a "QMC"?
> > Is this something that hardware from other manufacturers would not also
> > want to do?
>
> The QMC and the QMC channel are something specific to the SoC. This IP is only
> available on some Freescale/NXP SoCs.
>
> When I upstreamed the 'fsl,qmc-audio.yaml', I first used a generic name for this
> property and Kristoff asked to change to a vendor prefixed name.
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel/1dfade07-f8c4-2e16-00dc-c7d183708259@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Based on this, as the property 'fsl,qmc-chan' has the exact same meaning in
> fsl,qmc-audio.yaml and fsl,qmc-hdlc.yaml, I use the same name.

Okay, thanks for explaining!

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