[PATCH 03/13] Document the sleep property.

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Wed May 9 01:23:11 EST 2007


Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 01:29:44PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
>>+   The first cell of a sleep node is a phandle to the sleep controller.
>>+   The remaining cells are interpreted by said controller.  In the case
>>+   of an fsl,mpc83xx-pmc sleep controller, the second cell represents the
>>+   bits to clear in SCCR to stop the device's clock.
> 
> The second part here is completely implementation-dependent. I don't
> really see the need to document that in this global document?

In this document, not necessarily (I like David's suggestion of a wiki). 
   It should be documented somewhere, though, so one doesn't have to dig 
through Linux source code to write code for another OS that supports the 
binding.

-Scott



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