Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: Drop undocumented i.MX iomuxc-gpr bindings in examples

[Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 08:58:10AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2022, Rob Herring wrote:
> 
> > The i.MX iomuxc-gpr bindings are undocumented and a mess. Drop their use
> > from the examples.
> > 
> > The problem with the binding beyond the just random variations is that
> > the iomuxc-gpr is not a separate block, but registers within the iomuxc
> > block containing random leftover controls. As a separate DT node, it
> > creates nodes with overlapping memory addresses.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/syscon.yaml  | 8 --------
> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mux/reg-mux.yaml | 1 -
> >  2 files changed, 9 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/syscon.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/syscon.yaml
> > index 13baa452cc9d..fb784045013f 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/syscon.yaml
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/syscon.yaml
> > @@ -100,12 +100,4 @@ examples:
> >          compatible = "allwinner,sun8i-h3-system-controller", "syscon";
> >          reg = <0x01c00000 0x1000>;
> >      };
> > -
> > -  - |
> > -    gpr: iomuxc-gpr@20e0000 {
> > -        compatible = "fsl,imx6q-iomuxc-gpr", "syscon";
> > -        reg = <0x020e0000 0x38>;
> > -        hwlocks = <&hwlock1 1>;
> > -    };
> > -
> >  ...
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mux/reg-mux.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mux/reg-mux.yaml
> > index 60d5746eb39d..df4db96b5391 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mux/reg-mux.yaml
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mux/reg-mux.yaml
> > @@ -96,7 +96,6 @@ examples:
> >  
> >      #include <dt-bindings/mux/mux.h>
> >      syscon@1000 {
> > -        compatible = "fsl,imx7d-iomuxc-gpr", "fsl,imx6q-iomuxc-gpr", "syscon", "simple-mfd";
> >          reg = <0x1000 0x100>;
> 
> Is leaving no compatible the correct solution here?

Documenting iomuxc-gpr is really the right one, but as I said it is a 
mess and I'm not touching that.

But compatible is not really important in terms of what the example 
shows. 

> Do we have another (working) platform that we can use in its place?

Not one for video muxing that I'm aware of.

> Does it make sense to leave the "syscon" and "simple-mfd" entries?

No, because we don't allow those on their own.

Rob