[PATCH] powerpc: add FHCI USB, FSL MCU, FSL UPM and GPIO LEDs bindings

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Jul 4 04:39:34 EST 2008


On Jul 3, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 12:50:01PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 3, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
>>
>>> This patch adds few bindings for the new drivers to be submitted
>>> through
>>> the appropriate maintainers.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov at ru.mvista.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Segher, thanks for the comments on the previous version. Do you see
>>> any
>>> issues with this one or anything I could improve further?
>>>
>>> And if there are no issues... Kumar, could you apply this for
>>> powerpc-next?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt |  111 +++++++++++++++ 
>>> ++
>>> +++++++++
>>> 1 files changed, 111 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt b/
>>> Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
>>> index b68684d..a7ea549 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
>>> +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
>>> @@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ Table of Contents
>>>      s) Freescale on board FPGA
>>>      t) Freescael MSI interrupt controller
>>>      u) Freescale General-purpose Timers Module
>>> +      v) Freescale QUICC Engine USB Controller
>>> +      w) Freescale MCU with MPC8349E-mITX compatible firmware
>>
>> MCU doesn't mean much to me.  Its good to expand out the acronym at
>> least once.
>
> MCU stands for MicroController Unit, and even expanded this doesn't
> mean much to anybody. :-) Freescale documentation names it as boards'
> "MCU Subsystem", that is, the chip provides fan control, GPIOs,
> software halt, etc. Basically, it is boards' power management  
> companion
> chip. I don't know how to name it more correctly, so I adhered to
> documentation's naming (they simply call it MCU).
>
> ^^ I'll add some of these words to the node description though.

I agree, but MicroController lets me a know a bit more than the random  
letters M-C-U.  Just one reference in the heading is sufficient.

- k



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