From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bjorn.andersson@sonymobile.com (Bjorn Andersson) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 10:22:57 -0800 Subject: [RFC/PATCH] pinctrl: qcom: Add generic ssbi and spmi GPIO/MPP bindings In-Reply-To: <1447808426-21834-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org> References: <1447808426-21834-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org> Message-ID: <20151123182257.GP30882@usrtlx11787.corpusers.net> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue 17 Nov 17:00 PST 2015, Stephen Boyd wrote: > The drivers don't really need to know which PMIC they're for, so > make a generic binding for them. This alleviates us from updating > the drivers every time a new PMIC comes out. It's still > recommended that we update the binding with new PMIC models and > always specify the specific model for the MPPs and gpios before > the generic compatible string in devicetree, but this at least > cuts down on adding more and more compatible strings to the > drivers until we actually need them. > > Cc: > Cc: "Ivan T. Ivanov" > Cc: Bjorn Andersson > Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd > --- > I must say that when it comes to writing dts files I much prefer the msm way of denoting functions over the pmic one. But because of that decision this makes perfect sense! Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson Regards, Bjorn