Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] dt-binding: net: sfp binding documentation

[Rob Herring <robh-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 04:58:29PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > > >     Your example shows there's GPIO phandle *and* specifier.
> > > > 
> > > > Would "GPIO specifier" be enough here?
> > > 
> > >    No, specifier is the cells following GPIO (or any other) phandle.
> > 
> > So this should be "GPIO phandle and specifier of ...", is that correct?
> > 
> > I have found very few (< 4) occurrences of this language in (lots of) '-gpios' 
> > property descriptions under Documentation/devicetree/bindings/. Is this a new 
> > requirement?
> 
> Sometimes it is just easier to refer to another document:
> 
> GPIO, as defined in Documentation/devicetree/binding/gpio/gpio.txt

Yes, and what I care about here is how many GPIOs, direction and active 
state. IOW, worry about the information necessary to validate a specific 
instance is correct. And hopefully someday we'll have a format parseable 
to do that checking, and all the free form text will be gone.

Rob
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