[PATCH v10 5/5] [powerpc] Fix up fsl-flexcan device tree binding.

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Aug 11 00:45:17 EST 2011


On Aug 10, 2011, at 9:15 AM, Robin Holt wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 03:47:43PM +0200, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>> Hi Robin,
>> 
>> On 08/10/2011 05:06 AM, Robin Holt wrote:
>>> In working with the socketcan developers, we have come to the conclusion
>>> the Documentation...fsl-flexcan.txt device tree documentation needs to
>>> be cleaned up.  The driver does not depend upon any properties other
>> 
>> Your first sentence could be misleading. Please just describe what the
>> patch does and why, something like:
>> 
>> "This patch cleans up the documentation of the device-tree binding for
>> the Flexcan devices on Freescale's PowerPC and ARM cores. Extra
>> properties are not needed as the frequency of the source clock is
>> fixed..." and so on.
> 
> I borrowed heavily from your message. ;)
> 
>>> than the required properties so we are removing the file.  Additionally,
>>> the p1010*dts* files are not following the standard for node naming in
>>> that they have a trailing -v1.0.
>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt at sgi.com>
>>> To: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl at pengutronix.de>,
>>> To: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg at grandegger.com>,
>>> To: U Bhaskar-B22300 <B22300 at freescale.com>
>>> To: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
>>> Cc: socketcan-core at lists.berlios.de,
>>> Cc: netdev at vger.kernel.org,
>>> Cc: PPC list <linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org>
>>> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
>>> ---
>>> .../devicetree/bindings/net/can/fsl-flexcan.txt    |   61 --------------------
>>> arch/powerpc/boot/dts/p1010rdb.dts                 |    8 ---
>>> arch/powerpc/boot/dts/p1010si.dtsi                 |    8 +-
>>> 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-)
>>> delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/fsl-flexcan.txt

I don't understand how we can do this?  What binding spec covers the P1010 CAN support if you remove this?

- k



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