[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 10/20] tegra: fdt: Add additional USB binding

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Fri Jan 20 00:55:48 CET 2012


Hi,

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com> wrote:
> Olof Johansson wrote at Thursday, January 19, 2012 12:13 AM:
>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>> > Hi Olof,
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net> wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>> fsl-usb.txt uses "dr_mode" here, which might make sense to reuse given some of
>> >>>> the shared IP in question for device mode:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>  - dr_mode : indicates the working mode for "fsl-usb2-dr" compatible
>> >>>>   controllers.  Can be "host", "peripheral", or "otg".  Default to
>> >>>>   "host" if not defined for backward compatibility.
>> >>>
>> >>> What does 'dr' mean?
>> >>
>> >> After some searching, it looks like it means "dual-role", which seems
>> >> appropriate terminology for the tegra SoC as well.
>> >
>> > Thanks for looking that up.
>> >
>> > Well maybe, but it could mean data reverse mode or distinctive
>> > ring...I like Stephen's nice device-tree-friendly naming and
>> > explanation :-) Are we stuck with this?
>>
>> I think there's value in staying common with similar bindings on other
>> platforms, yes. Sorry. :)
>
> Ack from me too. If there's an existing convention, I'd prefer to stick
> with it. Sorry, I should have looked this up before coming up with
> something new.

OK thanks for that. Will take a look.

Regards,
Simon

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