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Message-Id: <E1ags6b-0004GW-8D@debutante>
Date:	Fri, 18 Mar 2016 10:58:09 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Applied "regmap: fix documentation to match code" to the regmap tree

The patch

   regmap: fix documentation to match code

has been applied to the regmap tree at

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regmap.git 

All being well this means that it will be integrated into the linux-next
tree (usually sometime in the next 24 hours) and sent to Linus during
the next merge window (or sooner if it is a bug fix), however if
problems are discovered then the patch may be dropped or reverted.  

You may get further e-mails resulting from automated or manual testing
and review of the tree, please engage with people reporting problems and
send followup patches addressing any issues that are reported if needed.

If any updates are required or you are submitting further changes they
should be sent as incremental updates against current git, existing
patches will not be replaced.

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Thanks,
Mark

>From 2596e07a3ed5a5f4d8b89be316c2b704d6f5dc5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 18:23:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] regmap: fix documentation to match code

The regmap binding talks about one thing, which is register
endianess, and it gets almost every aspect of it wrong.

This replaces the current text of the file with a version
that makes more sense and that matches what we implement
now.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Fixes: a06c488da0b0 ("regmap: Add explict native endian flag to DT bindings")
Fixes: 275876e208e2 ("regmap: Add the DT binding documentation for endianness")
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
---
 .../devicetree/bindings/regmap/regmap.txt          | 59 +++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regmap/regmap.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regmap/regmap.txt
index e98a9652ccc8..0127be360fe8 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regmap/regmap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regmap/regmap.txt
@@ -1,50 +1,29 @@
-Device-Tree binding for regmap
-
-The endianness mode of CPU & Device scenarios:
-Index     Device     Endianness properties
----------------------------------------------------
-1         BE         'big-endian'
-2         LE         'little-endian'
-3	  Native     'native-endian'
-
-For one device driver, which will run in different scenarios above
-on different SoCs using the devicetree, we need one way to simplify
-this.
+Devicetree binding for regmap
 
 Optional properties:
-- {big,little,native}-endian: these are boolean properties, if absent
-  then the implementation will choose a default based on the device
-  being controlled.  These properties are for register values and all
-  the buffers only.  Native endian means that the CPU and device have
-  the same endianness.
 
-Examples:
-Scenario 1 : CPU in LE mode & device in LE mode.
-dev: dev@...31000 {
-	      compatible = "name";
-	      reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>;
-	      ...
-};
+   little-endian,
+   big-endian,
+   native-endian:	See common-properties.txt for a definition
 
-Scenario 2 : CPU in LE mode & device in BE mode.
-dev: dev@...31000 {
-	      compatible = "name";
-	      reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>;
-	      ...
-	      big-endian;
-};
+Note:
+Regmap defaults to little-endian register access on MMIO based
+devices, this is by far the most common setting. On CPU
+architectures that typically run big-endian operating systems
+(e.g. PowerPC), registers can be defined as big-endian and must
+be marked that way in the devicetree.
 
-Scenario 3 : CPU in BE mode & device in BE mode.
-dev: dev@...31000 {
-	      compatible = "name";
-	      reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>;
-	      ...
-};
+On SoCs that can be operated in both big-endian and little-endian
+modes, with a single hardware switch controlling both the endianess
+of the CPU and a byteswap for MMIO registers (e.g. many Broadcom MIPS
+chips), "native-endian" is used to allow using the same device tree
+blob in both cases.
 
-Scenario 4 : CPU in BE mode & device in LE mode.
+Examples:
+Scenario 1 : a register set in big-endian mode.
 dev: dev@...31000 {
-	      compatible = "name";
+	      compatible = "syscon";
 	      reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>;
+	      big-endian;
 	      ...
-	      little-endian;
 };
-- 
2.7.0