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Message-ID: <f86161ec-0b84-2d88-01b0-352ef3a71342@broadcom.com>
Date:   Tue, 26 Jul 2022 10:27:39 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>
To:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
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        <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        "moderated list:BROADCOM BCM7XXX ARM ARCHITECTURE" 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation: sysfs: Document Broadcom STB memc
 sysfs knobs

On 7/26/22 02:34, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 25/07/2022 18:07, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> On 7/23/22 10:59, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>> On 22/07/2022 22:10, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>>> Document the "srpd" and "frequency" sysfs attributes exposed by
>>>> the brcmstb_memc driver.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  .../ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-brcmstb-memc       | 15 +++++++++++++++
>>>>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>>>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-brcmstb-memc
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-brcmstb-memc b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-brcmstb-memc
>>>> new file mode 100644
>>>> index 000000000000..2bf0f58e412c
>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-brcmstb-memc
>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
>>>> +What:		/sys/devices/platform/*/*/*/*/srpd
>>>
>>> That's a lot of */. Are you sure it is correct path? Didn't you include
>>> here some driver-related path components? Can you paste in email full
>>> path as an example?
>>
>> Yes this is the correct path:
>>
>> /sys/devices/platform/rdb/rdb:memory_controllers/rdb:memory_controllers:memc@...902000.memc-ddr/
>>
>> the 'rdb' node is our top level bus node, the 'rdb:memory_controllers' is an encapsulating node that groups all of the possible memory controllers in a system (there can be between 1 and 3), the rdb:memory_controllers@0 is the first of those memory controller and finally the 9902000.memc-ddr is the sub-node that contains the register controls of interest, since the memory controller aggregates different functions (arbitration, configuration, statistics, DDR PHY SHIM layer, etc.). Maybe I should provide a more complete binding while I am it.
> 
> The path should be much more specific so include at least:
> rdb/rdb:memory_controllers/rdb:memory_controllers:memc@*/
> (or some variations of it if pieces of name change)
> 
> However looking at the driver, this is regular platform driver, thus  it
> will appear as:
> /sys/bus/platform/9902000.memc-ddr

There is a missing /devices in the path, but yet that will work too:

/sys/bus/platform/devices/9902000.memc-ddr

Thanks!
-- 
Florian

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