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Re: [PATCH 1/5] net: add Hisilicon Network Subsystem support (config and documents)

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On Friday 14 August 2015 18:30:18 Kenneth Lee wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-nic.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-nic.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..5ab6969
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/hisilicon-hns-nic.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
> +Hisilicon Network Subsystem NIC controller
> +
> +Required properties:
> +- compatible: hisilicon,hns-nic
> +- ae-name: accelerator name who provide this interface
> +- ae-opts: options (string) to the accelerator. e.g. the index interface
> +
> +Example:
> +
> +       ethernet@0{
> +               compatible = "hisilicon,hns-nic";
> +               ae-name = "soc0-n4";
> +               ae-opts = "0";
> +       };
> 

These properties look very unconventional. What are the valid strings
for ae-name and ae-opts? It looks like the latter is just a number,
so why not use an integer property?

	Arnd
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[PATCH 0/5] net: Hisilicon Network Subsystem support Kenneth Lee <liguozhu@hisilicon.com> - 2015-08-14 12:30 +0200
  [PATCH 1/5] net: add Hisilicon Network Subsystem support (config and documents) Kenneth Lee <liguozhu@hisilicon.com> - 2015-08-14 12:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/5] net: add Hisilicon Network Subsystem support (config and documents) Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-08-14 23:00 +0200
  [PATCH 2/5] net: add Hisilicon Network Subsystem hnae framework support Kenneth Lee <liguozhu@hisilicon.com> - 2015-08-14 12:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/5] net: add Hisilicon Network Subsystem hnae  framework support David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2015-08-17 21:30 +0200

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