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| author | Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> | 2017-12-28 11:49:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> | 2018-01-02 17:52:03 +0100 |
| commit | 6da28acf745fe2537d77b9044f78a2a4e100c773 (patch) | |
| tree | 316d4de859f66d7e9fa76e980c1fe05ff603b5fb /Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom | |
| parent | eeprom: at24: fix a whitespace error in platform data (diff) | |
| download | linux-6da28acf745fe2537d77b9044f78a2a4e100c773.tar.xz linux-6da28acf745fe2537d77b9044f78a2a4e100c773.zip | |
dt-bindings: at24: consistently document the compatible property
Current description of the compatible property for at24 is quite vague.
State explicitly that any "<manufacturer>,<model>" pair is accepted as
long as a correct fallback is used for non-atmel chips.
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/at24.txt | 58 |
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/at24.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/at24.txt index cbc80e194ac6..5ac18ce2e8cd 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/at24.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/at24.txt @@ -2,28 +2,42 @@ EEPROMs (I2C) Required properties: - - compatible : should be "<manufacturer>,<type>", like these: - - "atmel,24c00", "atmel,24c01", "atmel,24c02", "atmel,24c04", - "atmel,24c08", "atmel,24c16", "atmel,24c32", "atmel,24c64", - "atmel,24c128", "atmel,24c256", "atmel,24c512", "atmel,24c1024" - - "catalyst,24c32" - - "microchip,24c128" - - "ramtron,24c64" - - "renesas,r1ex24002" - - The following manufacturers values have been deprecated: - "at", "at24" - - If there is no specific driver for <manufacturer>, a generic - device with <type> and manufacturer "atmel" should be used. - Possible types are: - "24c00", "24c01", "24c02", "24c04", "24c08", "24c16", "24c32", "24c64", - "24c128", "24c256", "24c512", "24c1024", "spd" + - compatible: Must be a "<manufacturer>,<model>" pair. The following <model> + values are supported (assuming "atmel" as manufacturer): + + "atmel,24c00", + "atmel,24c01", + "atmel,24c02", + "atmel,spd", + "atmel,24c04", + "atmel,24c08", + "atmel,24c16", + "atmel,24c32", + "atmel,24c64", + "atmel,24c128", + "atmel,24c256", + "atmel,24c512", + "atmel,24c1024", + + If <manufacturer> is not "atmel", then a fallback must be used + with the same <model> and "atmel" as manufacturer. + + Example: + compatible = "microchip,24c128", "atmel,24c128"; + + Supported manufacturers are: + + "catalyst", + "microchip", + "ramtron", + "renesas", + "nxp", + "st", + + Some vendors use different model names for chips which are just + variants of the above. Known such exceptions are listed below: + + "renesas,r1ex24002" - the fallback is "atmel,24c02" - reg : the I2C address of the EEPROM |