[PATCH RFC] Documentation/devicetree: Add specification for FSI busses

Jeremy Kerr jk at ozlabs.org
Tue May 2 16:25:49 AEST 2017


Hi Joel,

> Looks good to me Jeremy. One small question on the description, but
> please add Acked-by: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au> to future
> revisions.

Thanks for the review!

>> +The FSI bus is probe-able, so Linux is able to enumerate FSI slaves, and
>> +engines within those slaves. However, we have a facility to match devicetree
>> +nodes to probed engines. This allows for fsi engines to expose non-probeable
>> +busses, which are then exposed by the device tree. For example, a FSI engine
> 
> A nit: Can we can expose any device as part of the engine, not just a bus?

Absolutely. I'll clarify in a future version. Something like:

  This allows for fsi engines to expose non-probeable busses, or for
  drivers to access extra device properties, by data described in the
  device tree.

Cheers,


Jeremy


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