Re: [PATCH v8 14/16] ARM: dts: Introduce STM32F429 MCU

[Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>]

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On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:06:28AM +0200, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> > In the probe function, it would check the number of reg resources.
> > If a single resource is passed, it would take it, else it would look
> > the one named "reset".
> > The driver and bindings would be the same for the two families, and
> > the bindings would be backward compatible with sunxi ones.
> > 
> > Philip, Arnd, what do you think?
> 
> I'm not a fan of describing the register layout in the device tree as
> detailed as the sunxi bindings do. I'd prefer the reg property to
> describe the device's register address space with one entry per
> contiguous block of registers.

That's exactly what we do.

> Unifying the mostly identical drivers is a good idea though, and reusing
> preexisting bindings is better than inventing new ones. I favor the
> socfpga binding, but I still like the sunxi bindings and this proposal
> better than encoding the register offset in the reset index.

I don't really get the difference between the socfpga and our bindings
actually. Would you mind to explain a bit further what you don't like
about it ?

Maxime
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