The enable-method needs to be psci for the psci_cpuidle_ops to be
correctly registered.

Add a note to the binding documentation on where to find the declaration
of the enable-method since it is a macro and escapes any attempts to
grep for it.

Cc: Sudeep Holla <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Amit Kucheria <[email protected]>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/idle-states.txt | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/idle-states.txt 
b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/idle-states.txt
index 45730ba60af5..3a42335a6f3d 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/idle-states.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/idle-states.txt
@@ -239,6 +239,10 @@ processor idle states, defined as device tree nodes, are 
listed.
                        # On ARM v8 64-bit this property is required and must
                          be:
                           - "psci"
+                            (This assumes that the enable-method is "psci"
+                            in the cpu node[6] that then uses the
+                            CPUIDLE_METHOD_OF_DECLARE macro to setup the
+                            psci_cpuidle_ops callbacks)
                        # On ARM 32-bit systems this property is optional
 
 The nodes describing the idle states (state) can only be defined within the
@@ -697,3 +701,6 @@ cpus {
 
 [5] Devicetree Specification
     https://www.devicetree.org/specifications/
+
+[6] ARM Linux Kernel documentation - Booting AArch64 Linux
+    Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
-- 
2.17.1

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