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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 09/10] dt-binding: mtd: Document gpio-addr-flash
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On Thu,  4 Oct 2018 15:01:09 +0200
Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com> wrote:

> Add documentation for gpio-addr-flash. This binding allow creating
> flash devices that are paged using GPIOs.
> 
> Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
> Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
> ---
>  .../bindings/mtd/mtd,gpio-addr-flash.txt      | 25 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/mtd,gpio-addr-flash.txt
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/mtd,gpio-addr-flash.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/mtd,gpio-addr-flash.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..304a33880f9e
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/mtd,gpio-addr-flash.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
> +Memory Mapped flash with some address lines addressed using GPIOs
> +
> +Handle the case where a flash device is mostly addressed using physical
> +line and supplemented by GPIOs.  This way you can hook up say a 8MiB flash
> +to a 2MiB memory range and use the GPIOs to select a particular range.
> +
> + - compatible :  must be "mtd,gpio-addr-flash", "cfi-flash";

I keep thinking you don't need a specific binding, just add an optional
addr-gpios property to the generic physmap binding and that should do
the trick. Plus, "*mtd*,gpio-addr-flash" is a linux-ism, and DT
bindings should be OS-agnostic.

> + - reg : Address range of the mtd chip that is memory mapped, this is,
> +   on the previous example 2MiB.
> + - addr-gpios: List of GPIO specifiers that will be used to address the MSBs
> +   address lines. The order goes from LSB to MSB.
> +
> +For the rest of the properties, see mtd-physmap.txt.
> +
> +The device tree may optionally contain sub-nodes describing partitions of the
> +address space. Check partition.txt for more details.
> +
> +Example:
> +
> +	flash@300000 {
> +		compatible = "mtd,gpio-addr-flash", "cfi-flash";
> +		bank-width = <2>;
> +		reg = < 0x00300000 0x00200000 >;
> +		addr-gpios = <&gpio_0 3 0>, <&gpio_0 4 0>;
> +	} ;