From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] mfd: dt: Move syscon bindings to syscon subdirectory Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:17:16 +0100 Message-ID: <5094120.Y7DXfRGTEm@wuerfel> References: <20161206025321.1792-1-andrew@aj.id.au> <20161213110710.GV3625@dell.home> <1481630734.3112.40.camel@aj.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1481630734.3112.40.camel-zrmu5oMJ5Fs@public.gmane.org> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org Cc: Andrew Jeffery , Lee Jones , Mark Rutland , Corey Minyard , devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Linus Walleij , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?C=E9dric?= Le Goater , Joel Stanley List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday, December 13, 2016 10:35:34 PM CET Andrew Jeffery wrote: > On Tue, 2016-12-13 at 11:07 +0000, Lee Jones wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Andrew Jeffery wrote: > > > On Mon, 2016-12-12 at 09:39 -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > > > > On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 01:53:21PM +1100, Andrew Jeffery wrote: > > > > > > Lee's next email in the chain poked Arnd for an opinion, but Arnd > > > didn't reply. > > > > > > I don't mind. I moved these bindings separately so we could just drop > > > the patch if there was push-back. If we drop the whole idea I'll need > > > to apply a small fix to patch 5/6 to avoid creating the syscon > > > subdirectory. > > > > The sub-directory is a good idea for drivers who are *solely* syscon > > based. > > > > Yes, I wasn't saying otherwise, just commenting on my motivation and > approach. > > As far as I can tell all of the bindings I move here describe solely > syscon-based devices. > But do we know which ones they are? In principle, any syscon device node can have a specialized driver exporting an interface, the bindings always allow it to be done one way or the other, and we may change the driver or run a different OS that has decided differently. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html