Re: [PATCH v9 1/3] gpio: bcm281xx: Add GPIO driver

[Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>]

On 09/10/2013 03:14 PM, Christian Daudt wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> On 13-09-10 01:02 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> On 09/10/2013 12:07 PM, Markus Mayer wrote:
>>> From: Markus Mayer <mmayer@broadcom.com>
>>>
>>> Add the GPIO driver for the Broadcom bcm281xx family of mobile SoCs.
>>> These GPIO controllers may contain up to 8 banks where each bank
>>> includes 32 pins that can be driven high or low and act as an edge
>>> sensitive interrupt.
>> The binding,
>> Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
>>
>> although ...
>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-bcm-kona.txt
>>> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-bcm-kona.txt
>>> +This GPIO driver is used in the following Broadcom SoCs:
>>> +  BCM11130, BCM11140, BCM11351, BCM28145, BCM28155
>> Given that, I would expect the documentation of the compatible property
>> to enumerate the compatible values for all of those different chips,
>> although the driver could choose to only bind to e.g. brcm,bcm11351-gpio
>> or brcm,kona-gpio, since they're all compatible with it.
>>
> How would this help ? All of these chips are part of the same family and
> thus quite similar (the primary difference being on the memory
> controller and packaging), and we can't know a priori on which
> variations bugs will happen, if any.

That's exactly why the DT should include a compatible value that
precisely describes the chip; so that information is there if it's
needed in the future.