linux-kernel - Re: [v6, 3/5] dt: move guts devicetree doc out of powerpc directory

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 17 Mar 2016 18:11:57 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc:	Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@....com>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org,
	scott.wood@....com, Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Jochen Friedrich <jochen@...am.de>,
	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
	Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@...escale.com>,
	ulf.hansson@...aro.org,
	Bhupesh Sharma <bhupesh.sharma@...escale.com>,
	Zhao Qiang <qiang.zhao@...escale.com>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@...nel.org>, leoyang.li@....com,
	xiaobo.xie@....com
Subject: Re: [v6, 3/5] dt: move guts devicetree doc out of powerpc directory

On Thursday 17 March 2016 12:06:40 Rob Herring wrote:
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/guts.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/fsl/guts.txt
> > similarity index 91%
> > rename from Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/guts.txt
> > rename to Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/fsl/guts.txt
> > index b71b203..07adca9 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/guts.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/fsl/guts.txt
> > @@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ Recommended properties:
> >   - fsl,liodn-bits : Indicates the number of defined bits in the LIODN
> >     registers, for those SOCs that have a PAMU device.
> >  
> > + - little-endian : Indicates that the global utilities block is little
> > +   endian. The default is big endian.
> 
> The default is "the native endianness of the system".

This may be what is currently documented, but not what we are doing
in practice, as there is no "native endianess" for either PowerPC or
ARM -- both allow running big-endian or little-endian kernels and the
device registers are fixed.

I think the property here is fine.

	Arnd