From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: "Andrew Jeffery" <andrew@aj.id.au>,
"Lee Jones" <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
"Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
"Corey Minyard" <minyard@acm.org>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
"Linus Walleij" <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Cédric Le Goater" <clg@kaod.org>,
"Joel Stanley" <joel@jms.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] mfd: dt: Move syscon bindings to syscon subdirectory
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:17:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5094120.Y7DXfRGTEm@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1481630734.3112.40.camel@aj.id.au>
On Tuesday, December 13, 2016 10:35:34 PM CET Andrew Jeffery wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-12-13 at 11:07 +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > 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:
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
>
> Yes, I wasn't saying otherwise, just commenting on my motivation and
> approach.
>
> As far as I can tell all of the bindings I move here describe solely
> syscon-based devices.
>
But do we know which ones they are?
In principle, any syscon device node can have a specialized driver
exporting an interface, the bindings always allow it to be done
one way or the other, and we may change the driver or run a different
OS that has decided differently.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-13 12:20 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
2016-12-13 12:05 ` Andrew Jeffery
2016-12-13 12:17 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2016-12-13 12:39 ` Andrew Jeffery
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