linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/8] ARM: dts: imx7s: Adjust anatop-enable-bit for 'reg

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Date:   Fri, 14 Apr 2017 07:33:49 -0700
From:   Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@...il.com>
To:     Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andrey Yurovsky <yurovsky@...il.com>,
        Sascha Hauer <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
        Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@....com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] ARM: dts: imx7s: Adjust anatop-enable-bit for 'reg_1p0d'

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 8:28 PM, Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 06:32:37AM -0700, Andrey Smirnov wrote:
>> In PMU_REG_1P0Dn ENABLE_LINREG is bit 0. Bit 31 is called OVERRIDE and
>> it serves the function of granting permission to GPC IP block to alter
>> various bit-fields of the register. The reason why this property, that
>> trickeld here from Freescale BSP, is set to 31 is because in the code
>> it came from it is used in conjunction with a notifier handler for
>> REGULATOR_EVENT_PRE_DO_ENABLE and REGULATOR_EVENT_PRE_DO_DISABLE
>> events (not found in upstream kernel) that triggers GPC to start
>> manipulating aforementioned other bitfields.
>>
>> Since:
>>       a) none of the aforementioned machinery is implemented by
>>          upstream
>>       b) using 'anatop-enable-bit' in that capacity is a bit of a
>>          semantic stretch
>>
>> simplify the situation by setting the value of 'anatop-enable-bit' to
>> point to ENABLE_LINREG (same as i.MX6).
>>
>> Cc: yurovsky@...il.com
>> Cc: Sascha Hauer <kernel@...gutronix.de>
>> Cc: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@....com>
>> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
>> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
>> Cc: Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>
>> Cc: devicetree@...r.kernel.org
>> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
>> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
>> Signed-off-by: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@...il.com>
>
> Since patch 1 ~ 3 are all about adding anatop-enable-bit, can we squash
> them into one patch?

OK. Will do in v2.