From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751688Ab2AZJY0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:24:26 -0500 Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:45603 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751323Ab2AZJYX (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:24:23 -0500 Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:36:11 +0800 From: Shawn Guo To: Tony Lindgren Cc: Stephen Warren , Dong Aisheng-B29396 , "Linus Walleij (linus.walleij@linaro.org)" , "Sascha Hauer (s.hauer@pengutronix.de)" , "rob.herring@calxeda.com" , "kernel@pengutronix.de" , "cjb@laptop.org" , "Simon Glass (sjg@chromium.org)" , Dong Aisheng , Thomas Abraham , "Grant Likely (grant.likely@secretlab.ca)" , "devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: Pinmux bindings proposal V2 Message-ID: <20120126093610.GD2287@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net> References: <74CDBE0F657A3D45AFBB94109FB122FF1780DAB4CE@HQMAIL01.nvidia.com> <20120123210052.GS22818@atomide.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120123210052.GS22818@atomide.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Tony, On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 01:00:52PM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote: ... > So to summarize: I suggest we'll just stick to basics to get the system > booting and devices working using device tree. In most cases the device > drivers should be able to configure the suspend and off states in a generic > way using pinctrl API. Everything else, like debugging, we can probably > do with userspace tools. > > This would mean just using a minimal subset of your binding, probably > very close to what you originally suggested. > IMHO, as a generic device tree binding, it should be able to cope with different use cases. It's really free for you to use the minimal subset of the binding as your need, but we should not make the binding design just be that minimal subset to force that everyone else can only use the minimal subset. -- Regards, Shawn