linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 3/5] i2c: aspeed: added documentation for Aspeed I2C driver

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Message-ID: <20170403142215.zvj3aypoarczf2ok@rob-hp-laptop>
Date:   Mon, 3 Apr 2017 09:22:15 -0500
From:   Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:     Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>, wsa@...-dreams.de,
        mark.rutland@....com, tglx@...utronix.de, jason@...edaemon.net,
        marc.zyngier@....com, joel@....id.au, vz@...ia.com, mouse@...c.ru,
        clg@...d.org, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/5] i2c: aspeed: added documentation for Aspeed I2C
 driver

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 07:54:43PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-03-27 at 22:12 -0700, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> > Added device tree binding documentation for Aspeed I2C busses.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>
> 
> > +	i2c0: i2c-bus@40 {
> > +		#address-cells = <1>;
> > +		#size-cells = <0>;
> > +		#interrupt-cells = <1>;
> > +		reg = <0x40 0x40>;
> > +		compatible = "aspeed,ast2400-i2c-bus";
> > +		bus = <0>;
> > +		clocks = <&clk_apb>;
> > +		clock-frequency = <100000>;
> 
> For busses it's more traditional to make this "bus-frequency" but
> that's a nit and Linux/fdt has not respected that tradition terribly
> well. If you respin, it might be work changing.

Makes sense, but that's news to me. I'm still new to this DT stuff.

> The clock-frequency tends to be the frequency of the controller itself.

The clock binding has largely replaced that.

Rob