Re: [RFC PATCH 5/7] dt-bindings: ti-omap-hsmmc: Document new compatible for sdhci omap

Tony Lindgren
2017-08-17T16:05:42Z

* Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com> [170816 22:44]:
> Hi Tony,
>
> On Thursday 10 August 2017 03:42 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com> [170807 09:03]:
> >> Document the new compatible string "ti,dra7-sdhci" to be used for
> >> MMC controllers in DRA7 and DRA72 SoCs.
> >
> > I wonder if this should really be documented for sdhci
> > instead of ti-omap-hsmmc.txt?
>
> hmm.. yeah, having a separate binding document for sdhci would make the binding
> really clean and we also don't have to carry legacy binding code. But we'll be
> never able to remove omap-hsmmc driver then and end up maintaining 2 drivers
> for the same controller.

Well I think it's best to be able to enable sdhci one board at
a time after testing. Then eventually when fully supported, we
can just have sdhci also parse the legacy omap binding and just
drop the omap-hsmmc driver.

Regards,

Tony