[PATCH v2 4/4] documentation: Fix pinctrl documentation for Meson8 / Meson8b

[khilman@baylibre.com (Kevin Hilman)]

Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Carlo Caione <carlo@caione.org> wrote:
>
>> From: Carlo Caione <carlo@endlessm.com>
>>
>> Fix pin controller documentation introducing the new compatibles for
>> the pinctrl drivers specific for aobus / cbus.
>>
>> This is needed because we have changed the pin controller driver: we
>> have now a single specialized pinctrl driver / compatible for each bus
>> the controller is attached to, instead of one single driver dealing with
>> all the controllers we have on different buses.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Carlo Caione <carlo@endlessm.com>
>> ---
>> Hey Rob,
>> I'm resubmitting a V2 only for this patch since the driver changes have
>> been already taken by Linus.
> (...)
>>  Required properties for the root node:
>> - - compatible: "amlogic,meson8-pinctrl" or "amlogic,meson8b-pinctrl"
>> + - compatible: one of "amlogic,meson8-cbus-pinctrl"
>> +                     "amlogic,meson8b-cbus-pinctrl"
>> +                     "amlogic,meson8-aobus-pinctrl"
>> +                     "amlogic,meson8b-aobus-pinctrl"
>
> I guess I just have to merge this. It (IIUC) turns out that the driver is beta
> and prototypeish and the DT bindings were too early to be etched in stone,
> and any old device trees using it are not really working anyways.
>
> We prefer that this not happen because we have a serious control issue
> when it comes to bindings, but sometimes it happens anyways. Like
> with divorces and other unfortunate stuff like that.
>
> Rob are you OK with this change?

Also, FYI, the driver change was merged without the corresponding DT, so
this broke booting in linux-next, so either we merge the DT/bindings
(preferred) or we revert the driver change until the DT/bindings are
sorted out.

Kevin