Thread (22 messages) 22 messages, 5 authors, 2014-09-05

[PATCH v2 1/5] of: Add descriptions of thermtrip properties to Tegra PMC bindings

From: Stephen Warren <hidden>
Date: 2014-08-20 20:16:30
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On 08/13/2014 06:41 AM, Mikko Perttunen wrote:
Hardware-triggered thermal reset requires configuring the I2C
reset procedure. This configuration is read from the device tree,
so document the relevant properties in the binding documentation.
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diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/tegra/nvidia,tegra20-pmc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/tegra/nvidia,tegra20-pmc.txt
+Hardware-triggered thermal reset:
+On Tegra30, Tegra114 and Tegra124, if the 'i2c-thermtrip' subnode exists,
+hardware-triggered thermal reset will be enabled.
"will be enabled" sounds like SW behaviour, whereas DT is suppose to 
describe HW, and leave SW to define its own behaviour. I would suggest:

Optional sub-nodes:
i2c-thermtrip: Describes how to power off the system in the event of a
   thermal emergency.
+Required properties for hardware-triggered thermal reset (inside 'i2c-thermtrip'):
Simpler might be:

Required properties for i2c-thermtrip node:
+- nvidia,pmu : Phandle to power management unit / PMIC handling poweroff
+- nvidia,reg-addr : I2C register address to write poweroff command to
+- nvidia,reg-data : Poweroff command to write to PMU
Why are both the PMU/PMIC phandle and the register address/data 
required? I thought the purpose of having the phandle was to allow the 
register address and data to be queried from the PMU/PMIC driver.

To me, it seems much simpler to get rid of the phandle and just 
hard-code the I2C bus number, address, and data into this node, rather 
than having to go query it from the PMU/PMIC driver, then find the I2C 
controller, then query it for its ID (and hope that all HW modules that 
talk to I2C controllers directly use the same numbering scheme...)
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