From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lee.jones@linaro.org (Lee Jones) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 17:18:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 5/7] add bindings for stm32 IIO timer drivers In-Reply-To: References: <1479831207-32699-1-git-send-email-benjamin.gaignard@st.com> <1479831207-32699-6-git-send-email-benjamin.gaignard@st.com> Message-ID: <20161122171820.GL10134@dell.home> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, 22 Nov 2016, Benjamin Gaignard wrote: > [snip] > >> + "st,stm32-iio-timer5" > >> + "st,stm32-iio-timer6" > >> + "st,stm32-iio-timer7" > >> + "st,stm32-iio-timer8" > >> + "st,stm32-iio-timer9" > >> + "st,stm32-iio-timer10" > >> + "st,stm32-iio-timer11" > >> + "st,stm32-iio-timer12" > >> + "st,stm32-iio-timer13" > >> + "st,stm32-iio-timer14" > > > > We can't do this. This is a binding for a driver, not for the hardware. > > > > Unfortunately each instance for the hardware IP have little > differences like which triggers they could accept or size of the > counter register, > and I doesn't have value inside the hardware to distinguish them so > the only way I found is to use compatible. Can't you represent these as properties? -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org ? Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog