From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
To: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: jkosina@suse.cz, benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, andrea@borgia.bo.it,
kai.heng.feng@canonical.com, linux-input@vger.kernel.org,
swboyd@chromium.org, hdegoede@redhat.com,
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] dt-bindings: HID: i2c-hid: Label this binding as deprecated
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 11:47:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201030164743.GA3967106@bogus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201023162220.v2.1.I45b53fe84e2215946f900f5b28bab1aa9d029ac7@changeid>
On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 04:22:52PM -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> As pointed out by Rob Herring [1], we should have a device-specific
> compatible string. This means people shouldn't be using the
> "i2c-over-hid" compatible string anymore, or at least not without a
> more specific compatible string before it. Specifically:
>
> 1. For newly added devices we should just have the device-specific
> device string (no "hid-over-i2c" fallback) and infer the timings
> and hid-descr-addr from there.
I wouldn't go that far. Having a fallback is perfectly acceptible. And
hopefully there are at least some devices where that's good enough for
drivers to use.
If we have cases of only 'i2c-over-hid' being used (in DT), then the
solution is making this a schema so we can enforce that as not valid.
>
> 2. If there's a need for a device tree to be backward compatible, we
> should list the device-specific compatible string and add the
> "hid-over-i2c" fallback and the various timings.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201019211036.GA3595039@bogus
>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
> - ("dt-bindings: HID: i2c-hid: Label this binding as deprecated") new in v2.
>
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/hid-over-i2c.txt | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/hid-over-i2c.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/hid-over-i2c.txt
> index c76bafaf98d2..733a5f053280 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/hid-over-i2c.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/hid-over-i2c.txt
> @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
> * HID over I2C Device-Tree bindings
>
> +WARNING: this binding is deprecated. Instead of using this, create specific
> +bindings for each hid-over-i2c device.
> +
> HID over I2C provides support for various Human Interface Devices over the
> I2C bus. These devices can be for example touchpads, keyboards, touch screens
> or sensors.
> --
> 2.29.0.rc1.297.gfa9743e501-goog
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-30 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-23 23:22 [PATCH v2 1/3] dt-bindings: HID: i2c-hid: Label this binding as deprecated Douglas Anderson
2020-10-23 23:22 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] dt-bindings: HID: i2c-hid: Introduce bindings for the Goodix GT7375P Douglas Anderson
2020-10-23 23:30 ` Doug Anderson
2020-10-30 10:52 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2020-10-23 23:22 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] HID: i2c-hid: Support the Goodix GT7375P touchscreen Douglas Anderson
2020-10-30 11:01 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2020-10-30 10:51 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] dt-bindings: HID: i2c-hid: Label this binding as deprecated Benjamin Tissoires
2020-10-30 18:00 ` Rob Herring
2020-10-30 19:12 ` Benjamin Tissoires
2020-10-30 20:11 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2020-11-03 0:18 ` Doug Anderson
2020-10-30 16:47 ` Rob Herring [this message]
2020-11-03 0:16 ` Doug Anderson
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