linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/5] dt-binding: rtci-pcf8523: add quartz

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Message-ID: <20180913205136.GL14988@piout.net>
Date:   Thu, 13 Sep 2018 22:51:36 +0200
From:   Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>
To:     Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:     Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
        Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...id.au>,
        Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@....com>,
        Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org,
        Søren Andersen <san@...v.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/5] dt-binding: rtci-pcf8523: add quartz_load property

On 13/09/2018 22:44:12+0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > The boolean properties usually don't work well for RTCs because people
> > usually want to keep any previous configuration that may have been done
> > at the factory or in the bootloader so I would use:
> > 
> > nxp,quartz_load_fF and this would be either 7000 or 12500.
> We had is implmented like this (using pF) in the beginning but
> then went for the simpler property.
> Will add a fF property as you suggest and avoid breaking the existing drivers.
> We will check a few of the boards to see if the current configuration
> of the pcf8523 driver looks wrong, and if so we will print
> the warnings as suggested.
> 
> I think the above covers feedback on all patches.
> And thanks for the feedback!
> 

Hint: look at the cubox-i and the hummingboard schematics. I'm
definitely not an analog expert but the two capacitors on the cubox-i
are making me think that the setting should be different from the
hummingboard.

-- 
Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com