From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Ivan T. Ivanov" Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] pinctrl: qcom: Add generic ssbi and spmi GPIO/MPP bindings Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 08:37:19 +0200 Message-ID: <30F64119-A5B2-45FA-ABA2-A7FB1A1D7952@gmail.com> References: <1447808426-21834-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.1 \(3096.5\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1447808426-21834-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org> Sender: linux-gpio-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Boyd Cc: Linus Walleij , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, "Ivan T. Ivanov" , Bjorn Andersson List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org > On Nov 18, 2015, at 3:00 AM, 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 Thanks. Acked-by: Ivan T. Ivanov