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Date:   Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:57:02 +0300
From:   Georgi Djakov <georgi.djakov@...aro.org>
To:     Evan Green <evgreen@...omium.org>
Cc:     linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        rjw@...ysocki.net, robh+dt@...nel.org,
        Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
        khilman@...libre.com, Alexandre Bailon <abailon@...libre.com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        amit.kucheria@...aro.org, seansw@....qualcomm.com,
        daidavid1@...eaurora.org, mka@...omium.org, mark.rutland@....com,
        lorenzo.pieralisi@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 7/8] dt-bindings: Introduce interconnect consumers
 bindings

Hi,

On 07/11/2018 01:34 AM, Evan Green wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 8:51 AM Georgi Djakov <georgi.djakov@...aro.org> wrote:
>>
>> Add documentation for the interconnect consumer bindings, that will allow
>> to link a device node (consumer) to its interconnect controller hardware.
>>
>> Tha aim is to enable drivers to request a framework API to configure an
>> interconnect path by providing their struct device pointer and a name.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Georgi Djakov <georgi.djakov@...aro.org>
>> ---
>>  .../bindings/interconnect/interconnect.txt    | 27 +++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interconnect/interconnect.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interconnect/interconnect.txt
>> index 6e2b2971b094..0ad65dccbe8b 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interconnect/interconnect.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interconnect/interconnect.txt
>> @@ -31,3 +31,30 @@ Example:
>>                         clocks = <&rpmcc RPM_SMD_SNOC_CLK>,
>>                                  <&rpmcc RPM_SMD_SNOC_A_CLK>;
>>                 };
>> +
>> +
>> += interconnect consumers =
>> +
>> +The interconnect consumers are device nodes which consume the interconnect
>> +path(s) provided by the interconnect provider. There can be multiple
> 
> I wonder if this sentence could be more descriptive. Maybe something like:
> 
> The interconnect consumers are device nodes which dynamically express
> their bandwidth requirements along interconnect paths they are
> connected to.
> 
> ...or choose a better one if this one's a mouthful.
> 

This sounds much better. Thank you!

Georgi