From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Courbot Subject: Re: Use of the pwm-names DT property Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 16:48:31 +0900 Message-ID: <4FF3F54F.1060809@nvidia.com> References: <4FF3E862.8050101@nvidia.com> <20120704073942.GC25386@avionic-0098.mockup.avionic-design.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20120704073942.GC25386@avionic-0098.mockup.avionic-design.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Thierry Reding Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Wed 04 Jul 2012 04:39:42 PM JST, Thierry Reding wrote: > In fact the *-names properties are rather common. They are used for the > reg and interrupts properties. The pinctrl subsystem and the upcoming > clock bindings also use the *-names properties. So one could just as > well argue that the regulator and gpio bindings should have been using > regulator-names and gpio-names respectively instead. I was not aware of that, thanks for the explanation. Too bad the DT is already split in two different ways for naming things. Alex.