From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/19] pinctrl: exynos: Add support for Exynos5433
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 13:36:36 +0100
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On Thursday 27 November 2014 21:14:59 Tomasz Figa wrote:
> > my impression is that with the
> > move to arm64, you should come up with a new binding that can fully
> > describe each controller so you don't have to add new code and bindings
> > for each future SoC that uses the same scheme.
> 
> Still, this is exactly the same thing I thought when initially refactoring this
> driver 2 years ago and what was dismissed at that time due to people
> supposedly not wanting that much data in DT. If this point of view has changed,
> then I fully support your view, though.

I guess people were at the time underestimating the rate at which Samsung
comes out with new SoC variants that are all slightly different.

	Arnd
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