linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3 2/4] of: Add binding document for MIPS GIC

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Date:	Wed, 29 Oct 2014 10:08:10 -0700
From:	Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@...omium.org>
To:	Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@...tec.com>
Cc:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	John Crispin <blogic@...nwrt.org>,
	David Daney <ddaney.cavm@...il.com>,
	Linux-MIPS <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 2/4] of: Add binding document for MIPS GIC

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@...tec.com> wrote:
> On 10/29/2014 12:12 AM, Andrew Bresticker wrote:
>>
>> +- reg : Base address and length of the GIC registers.
>>
>
> Also except for sead3, the base address should be properly reported by the
> hardware. The size is fixed (for a specific version of GIC at least - which
> is also reported by the hardware). So it would be nice to make this
> optional.

Even though this is usually probable, I'd prefer to leave this as
required, or at least "optional, but recommended".  I don't have a
very strong opinion on it though, but perhaps the device-tree folks
do?
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