[PATCH 1/2] ls2080a/dts: Add little endian property for GPIO IP block

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Li Yang <leoli at freescale.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Liu Gang <Gang.Liu at freescale.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The GPIO block for ls2080a platform has little endian registers,
>>> the GPIO driver needs this property to read/write registers by
>>> right interface.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Liu Gang <Gang.Liu at freescale.com>
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-mpc8xxx.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-mpc8xxx.txt
>>> index f2455c5..c836dab 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-mpc8xxx.txt
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-mpc8xxx.txt
>>> @@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ Required properties:
>>>    the second cell is used to specify the gpio polarity:
>>>        0 = active high
>>>        1 = active low
>>> +- little-endian : Should be set if the GPIO has little endian
>>> +                 registers. No the property means the GPIO
>>> +                 registers are big endian mode.
>>
>> That is a very generic binding and I would like the devicetree
>> maintainers to say something about this.
>>
>> I would be OK if this is specified for *all* gpiochips in
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt
>> or even higher up in the desriptions.
>>
>> Just for Freescale seems a bit too local.
>
> There is already a generic definition at
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/common-properties.txt.  But it will
> be special for Freescale controller to say that the default is
> big-endian for backward compatibility.

OK! Why not reference that just like you reference gpio.txt?
It fooled me so it will fool others.

Yours,
Linus Walleij