From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: robh@kernel.org (Rob Herring)
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:52:12 -0600
Subject: [RFC PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: pinctrl: sunxi: document new
 generic binding
In-Reply-To: <20171113012523.2328-2-andre.przywara@arm.com>
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On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 01:25:21AM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
> So far all the Allwinner pinctrl drivers provided a table in the
> kernel to describe all the pins and the link between the pinctrl functions
> names (strings) and their respective mux values (register values).
> 
> Extend the binding to put those mappings in the DT, so that any SoC can
> describe its pinctrl and GPIO data fully there instead of relying on
> tables.
> This uses a generic compatible name, to be prepended with an SoC
> specific name in the node.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
> ---
>  .../bindings/pinctrl/allwinner,sunxi-pinctrl.txt   | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 58 insertions(+)

I'm leaving this one to Linus...

Generally, this has not been the direction we've wanted to go. What 
makes this unique to Allwinner?

Rob