Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] Bluetooth: ti-st: Add GNSS subdevice for TI Wilink chips

[Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info>]

Am Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:14:45 +0100
schrieb Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>:

> > GNSS support is available through
> > channel 9 whilst FM is through channel 8. Add a platform subdevice for
> > GNSS so that a driver for that functionality can be build.  
> 
> > To avoid having
> > useless GNSS devices, do it only when the devicetree node name contains
> > gnss.  
> 
> That's seems like an unorthodox use of device tree. These devices are
> primarily (WiFi and) Bluetooth controllers so should probably not have
> gone about and updated the node names to 'bluetooth-gnss' as you did,
> for example, here:

yes, the matching of the node name is a bit unorthodox. How do you
define primary? The old design with ti-st driver and bluetooth and
other functions on top does not look like anything primary. If you look
at the current situation with the GNSS stuff sitting on to of
bluetooth, the picture is different, but that is implementation. As the
devicetree is describing hardware, having the nodenames describe things
seems like the right way to do.
But I agree with you that the driver should not care about the node
name, but use a boolean property.

Regards,
Andreas