From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/19] pinctrl: exynos: Add support for Exynos5433 Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 13:36:36 +0100 Message-ID: <4132795.KBVIQFTevx@wuerfel> References: <1417073716-22997-1-git-send-email-cw00.choi@samsung.com> <3904347.Bp2gmpYM49@wuerfel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Tomasz Figa Cc: Chanwoo Choi , "linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org" , linux-kernel , Kukjin Kim , Mark Rutland , Olof Johansson , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Sylwester Nawrocki , Thomas Abraham , Linus Walleij , Kyungmin Park , InKi Dae , Chanho Park , geunsik.lim@samsung.com, "sw0312.kim" , Jaehoon Chung , Abhilash Kesavan , devicetree , linux-arm-kernel List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 27 November 2014 21:14:59 Tomasz Figa wrote: > > my impression is that with the > > move to arm64, you should come up with a new binding that can fully > > describe each controller so you don't have to add new code and bindings > > for each future SoC that uses the same scheme. > > Still, this is exactly the same thing I thought when initially refactoring this > driver 2 years ago and what was dismissed at that time due to people > supposedly not wanting that much data in DT. If this point of view has changed, > then I fully support your view, though. I guess people were at the time underestimating the rate at which Samsung comes out with new SoC variants that are all slightly different. Arnd