On 03/18/2016 12:02 PM, Suman Anna wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> On 03/18/2016 11:39 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 03:46:04PM -0600, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>>> Add syscon reset controller binding. This will hook to the reset
>>> framework and use syscon/regmap to set reset bits. This allows
>>> reset control of individual SoC subsytems and devices with
>>> memory-mapped reset registers in a common register memory
>>> space.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andrew F. Davis <[email protected]>
>>> [[email protected]: revise the binding format]
>>> Signed-off-by: Suman Anna <[email protected]>
>>> ---
>>>  .../devicetree/bindings/reset/syscon-reset.txt     | 114 
>>> +++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  include/dt-bindings/reset/syscon.h                 |  23 +++++
>>>  2 files changed, 137 insertions(+)
>>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reset/syscon-reset.txt
>>>  create mode 100644 include/dt-bindings/reset/syscon.h
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reset/syscon-reset.txt 
>>> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reset/syscon-reset.txt
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 0000000..02bc9e3
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reset/syscon-reset.txt
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
>>> +SysCon Reset Controller
>>> +=======================
>>> +
>>> +Almost all SoCs have hardware modules that require reset control in 
>>> addition
>>> +to clock and power control for their functionality. The reset control is
>>> +typically provided by means of memory-mapped I/O registers. These 
>>> registers are
>>> +sometimes a part of a larger register space region implementing various
>>> +functionalities. This register range is best represented as a syscon node 
>>> to
>>> +allow multiple entities to access their relevant registers in the common
>>> +register space.
>>> +
>>> +A SysCon Reset Controller node defines a device that uses a syscon node
>>> +and provides reset management functionality for various hardware modules
>>> +present on the SoC.
>>> +
>>> +SysCon Reset Controller Node
>>> +============================
>>> +Each of the reset provider/controller nodes should be a child of a syscon
>>> +node and have the following properties.
>>> +
>>> +Required properties:
>>> +--------------------
>>> + - compatible              : Should be "syscon-reset"
>>> + - #reset-cells            : Should be 1. Please see the reset consumer 
>>> node below
>>> +                     for usage details
>>> + - #address-cells  : Should be 1
>>> + - #size-cells             : Should be 0
>>> +
>>> +SysCon Reset Child Node
>>> +============================
>>> +Each reset provider/controller node should have a child node for each reset
>>> +it would like to expose to consumers.
>>
>> A node per register bit... Now I'm only more convinced this is too low 
>> level.
> 
> Thanks for the review/comments. So, what's your recommendation here -
> add the reset info to driver match data and use SoC-specific
> compatibles? That will also work, we just didn't go that route as it
> appeared to be adding hardware data to a driver.
> 
>>> +
>>> +Required properties:
>>> +--------------------
>>> + - reg                     : This reset's number, this will be used to 
>>> reference
>>> +                     this reset by consumers of this reset
>>
>> Now you have a made up index unrelated to anything in the h/w. Sometimes 
>> that's unavoidable, but your prior version did.
> 
> We have made this change to avoid adding the reset data in the consumer
> nodes as was done in v1, and provide it in the controller node itself.
> We still need a way for consumers to match a specific reset. This is
> unavoidable if the controller were to encode all the reset data (even if
> we go with coding up the resets in the driver using SoC-specific
> compatibles, and use a dt-include header file to mark the indices).

Hi Rob, Philipp,

Any more comments on this series? If you don't have any, we will repost
with some minor cleanups/updates against 4.6-rc1 for the next merge
window. Or do you feel that the generic driver is still not the way to
go and restrict this to a keystone specific driver?

regards
Suman

> 
> regards
> Suman
> 
>>
>>> + - reset-control   : Contains the reset control register information
>>> +                     Should contain 3 cells defined as:
>>> +                       Cell #1 : register offset of the reset
>>> +                                 control/status register from the syscon
>>> +                                 register base
>>> +                       Cell #2 : bit shift value for the reset in the
>>> +                                 respective reset control/status register
>>> +                       Cell #3 : polarity of the reset bit. Should be 1 or
>>> +                                 RESET_ASSERT_SET for resets that are
>>> +                                 asserted when the bit is set, 0 or
>>> +                                 RESET_ASSERT_CLEAR for resets that are
>>> +                                 asserted when the bit is cleared
>>> +
>>> +Optional properties:
>>> +--------------------
>>> + - reset-status            : Contains the reset status register 
>>> information. The
>>> +                     contents of this property are the equivalent to
>>> +                     reset-control as defined above. If this property is
>>> +                     not present and the toggle flag is not set, the
>>> +                     reset register is assumed to be the same as the
>>> +                     control register
>>> + - toggle          : Mark this reset as a toggle only reset, this is used
>>> +                     when no status register is available.
>>
> 

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