Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760195AbbKTRxk (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2015 12:53:40 -0500 Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.29.96]:60390 "EHLO smtp.codeaurora.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759585AbbKTRxh (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2015 12:53:37 -0500 Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 09:53:34 -0800 From: Stephen Boyd To: Rob Herring Cc: Linus Walleij , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, "Ivan T. Ivanov" , Bjorn Andersson Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] pinctrl: qcom: Add generic ssbi and spmi GPIO/MPP bindings Message-ID: <20151120175334.GR32672@codeaurora.org> References: <1447808426-21834-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org> <20151119145017.GA19795@rob-hp-laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151119145017.GA19795@rob-hp-laptop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1281 Lines: 29 On 11/19, Rob Herring wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 05:00:26PM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote: > > The drivers don't really need to know which PMIC they're for, so > > make a generic binding for them. This alleviates us from updating > > the drivers every time a new PMIC comes out. It's still > > recommended that we update the binding with new PMIC models and > > always specify the specific model for the MPPs and gpios before > > the generic compatible string in devicetree, but this at least > > cuts down on adding more and more compatible strings to the > > drivers until we actually need them. > > > > Cc: > > Cc: "Ivan T. Ivanov" > > Cc: Bjorn Andersson > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd > > --- > > Seems okay to me. I assume you are going to update all the dts files? Yep, I'll send out patches to do that. -- Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/