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From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
To: Chintan Vankar <c-vankar@ti.com>
Cc: Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
	Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se>,
	s-vadapalli@ti.com, danishanwar@ti.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] devicetree: bindings: mux: reg-mux: Update bindings for reg-mux for new property
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 09:39:59 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250304153959.GA2654372-robh@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250304102306.2977836-2-c-vankar@ti.com>

On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 03:53:05PM +0530, Chintan Vankar wrote:
> DT-binding of reg-mux is defined in such a way that one need to provide
> register offset and mask in a "mux-reg-masks" property and corresponding
> register value in "idle-states" property. This constraint forces to define
> these values in such a way that "mux-reg-masks" and "idle-states" must be
> in sync with each other. This implementation would be more complex if
> specific register or set of registers need to be configured which has
> large memory space. Introduce a new property "mux-reg-masks-state" which
> allow to specify offset, mask and value as a tuple in a single property.

Maybe in hindsight that would have been better, but having 2 ways to 
specify the same thing that we have to maintain forever is not an 
improvement.

No one is making you use this binding. If you have a large number of 
muxes, then maybe you should use a specific binding.

Rob

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-03-04 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-03-04 10:23 [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] Extend mmio-mux driver to configure mux with new DT property Chintan Vankar
2025-03-04 10:23 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] devicetree: bindings: mux: reg-mux: Update bindings for reg-mux for new property Chintan Vankar
2025-03-04 10:47   ` Vankar, Chintan
2025-03-04 15:39   ` Rob Herring [this message]
2025-03-04 19:03     ` Vankar, Chintan
2025-03-04 20:40       ` Rob Herring
2025-03-05 21:43         ` Vankar, Chintan
2025-03-05 22:14           ` Rob Herring
2025-03-05 22:30             ` Vankar, Chintan
2025-04-22  8:42               ` Chintan Vankar
2025-03-04 10:23 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/2] mux: mmio: Extend mmio-mux driver to configure mux with new DT property Chintan Vankar
2025-05-20  5:29 ` [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] " Chintan Vankar
2025-05-30 17:05   ` Vankar, Chintan
2025-05-31  5:52     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-05-31  9:37       ` Vankar, Chintan
2025-05-31 12:28         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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