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From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>
Cc: "Rob Herring" <robh@kernel.org>,
	"Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	"Linus Walleij" <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	"Corey Minyard" <minyard@acm.org>,
	"Cédric Le Goater" <clg@kaod.org>,
	"Joel Stanley" <joel@jms.id.au>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] mfd: dt: Move syscon bindings to syscon subdirectory
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 11:07:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161213110710.GV3625@dell.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1481604793.3112.32.camel@aj.id.au>

On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Andrew Jeffery wrote:

> On Mon, 2016-12-12 at 09:39 -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 01:53:21PM +1100, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
> > > The use of syscons is growing, lets collate them in their own part of
> > > the bindings tree.
> > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>
> > > ---
> > >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/aspeed-scu.txt         | 0
> > >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/atmel-gpbr.txt         | 0
> > >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/atmel-matrix.txt       | 0
> > >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/atmel-smc.txt          | 0
> > >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/qcom,tcsr.txt          | 0
> > >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/syscon.txt             | 0
> > >  .../devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/ti-keystone-devctrl.txt          | 0
> > >  7 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > >  rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/aspeed-scu.txt (100%)
> > >  rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/atmel-gpbr.txt (100%)
> > >  rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/atmel-matrix.txt (100%)
> > >  rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/atmel-smc.txt (100%)
> > >  rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/qcom,tcsr.txt (100%)
> > >  rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/syscon.txt (100%)
> > >  rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/{ => syscon}/ti-keystone-devctrl.txt (100%)
> > 
> > I'm not so sure this is the right direction. syscon usage is pretty much 
> > spread throughout the tree.
> 
> This patch was created based on my interpretation of Lee's feedback
> here:
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/11/18/650
> 
> Lee's next email in the chain poked Arnd for an opinion, but Arnd
> didn't reply.
> 
> I don't mind. I moved these bindings separately so we could just drop
> the patch if there was push-back. If we drop the whole idea I'll need
> to apply a small fix to patch 5/6 to avoid creating the syscon
> subdirectory.

The sub-directory is a good idea for drivers who are *solely* syscon
based.



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  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-13 11:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-06  2:53 [PATCH v3 0/6] mfd: dt: Add bindings for the Aspeed MFDs Andrew Jeffery
2016-12-06  2:53 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] mfd: dt: Fix "indicates" typo in mfd bindings document Andrew Jeffery
2016-12-07 15:08   ` Linus Walleij
2016-12-09 22:42   ` Rob Herring
2017-01-03 17:49   ` Lee Jones
2016-12-06  2:53 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] mfd: dt: ranges, #address-cells and #size-cells as optional properties Andrew Jeffery
2016-12-09 22:49   ` Rob Herring
2016-12-09 22:55     ` Andrew Jeffery
2017-01-03 17:49   ` Lee Jones
2016-12-06  2:53 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] mfd: dt: Add Aspeed Low Pin Count Controller bindings Andrew Jeffery
2016-12-07 15:11   ` Linus Walleij
2016-12-08  2:07   ` Joel Stanley
2016-12-12 15:28   ` Rob Herring
2017-01-03 17:49   ` Lee Jones
2016-12-06  2:53 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] mfd: dt: Add bindings for the Aspeed LPC Host Controller (LHC) Andrew Jeffery
2016-12-07 15:12   ` Linus Walleij
2016-12-08  2:12   ` Joel Stanley
2016-12-08 12:08     ` Andrew Jeffery
2016-12-12 15:30   ` Rob Herring
2016-12-13  4:40     ` Andrew Jeffery
2017-01-03 17:49   ` Lee Jones
2016-12-06  2:53 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] mfd: dt: Add bindings for the Aspeed SoC Display Controller (GFX) Andrew Jeffery
2017-01-03 17:49   ` Lee Jones
2016-12-06  2:53 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] mfd: dt: Move syscon bindings to syscon subdirectory Andrew Jeffery
2016-12-12 15:39   ` Rob Herring
2016-12-13  4:53     ` Andrew Jeffery
2016-12-13 11:07       ` Lee Jones [this message]
2016-12-13 12:05         ` Andrew Jeffery
2016-12-13 12:17           ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-12-13 12:39             ` Andrew Jeffery

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