linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] nvmem: dt: document SNVS LPGPR binding

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Date:   Wed, 12 Apr 2017 08:23:53 +0200
From:   Oleksij Rempel <ore@...gutronix.de>
To:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc:     Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>,
        Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
        Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel@...gutrnoix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] nvmem: dt: document SNVS LPGPR binding

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 08:35:00AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 11:36 PM, Oleksij Rempel <ore@...gutronix.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > On 04/10/2017 08:22 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 09:31:07AM +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Documenation bindings for the Low Power General Purpose Registe
> >>
> > Jes, it is refereed by other driver.
> 
> What I mean is snvs-lpgpr referenced elsewhere in DT, not by some
> driver? You are not using the nvmem binding here so it doesn't seem
> like it is. If that's the case, then you don't need this node. The
> only information here is the offset which can be part of a driver for
> the parent node. To put it another way, we don't want to fill DT with
> a node per register.

This node is referenced insight of product DT. Since the system has
or may have more then one nvmem node we need to assigne aliase to it.

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