From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933709Ab2GDHqn (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2012 03:46:43 -0400 Received: from hqemgate03.nvidia.com ([216.228.121.140]:12877 "EHLO hqemgate03.nvidia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932986Ab2GDHqm (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2012 03:46:42 -0400 X-PGP-Universal: processed; by hqnvupgp08.nvidia.com on Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:46:36 -0700 Message-ID: <4FF3F54F.1060809@nvidia.com> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 16:48:31 +0900 From: Alex Courbot Organization: NVIDIA User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120616 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thierry Reding CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org" Subject: Re: Use of the pwm-names DT property References: <4FF3E862.8050101@nvidia.com> <20120704073942.GC25386@avionic-0098.mockup.avionic-design.de> In-Reply-To: <20120704073942.GC25386@avionic-0098.mockup.avionic-design.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed 04 Jul 2012 04:39:42 PM JST, Thierry Reding wrote: > In fact the *-names properties are rather common. They are used for the > reg and interrupts properties. The pinctrl subsystem and the upcoming > clock bindings also use the *-names properties. So one could just as > well argue that the regulator and gpio bindings should have been using > regulator-names and gpio-names respectively instead. I was not aware of that, thanks for the explanation. Too bad the DT is already split in two different ways for naming things. Alex.