From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gnurou@gmail.com,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: gpio: guidelines for bindings
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:36:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4218554.VFiN8kJDb1@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1414570394-11706-1-git-send-email-acourbot@nvidia.com>
On Wednesday 29 October 2014 17:13:14 Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> Now that ACPI supports named GPIO properties, either through ACPI 5.1 or
> the per-driver ACPI GPIO mappings, we can be more narrow about the way
> GPIOs should be specified in Device Tree bindings.
>
> This patch updates the GPIO DT bindings documentation to highlight the
> following rules for new GPIO bindings:
>
> - All new bindings must have a meaningful name (e.g. the "gpios"
> property must not be used)
> - The only suffix allowed is "-gpios", no matter the number of
> descriptors in the property
> - GPIOs can only be grouped under the same property when they serve the
> same purpose, a case that should remain exceptional (e.g. bit-banged
> data lines).
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
> CC: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> CC: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
> CC: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-29 8:13 [PATCH v2] Documentation: gpio: guidelines for bindings Alexandre Courbot
2014-10-29 8:36 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2014-10-29 8:56 ` Mika Westerberg
2014-10-30 15:42 ` Linus Walleij
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