[PATCH] dt-bindings: touchscreen: silead_gsl1680: Document touchscreen-fw-name

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Tue Aug 30 09:34:10 PDT 2016


On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 11:35:47AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 29-08-16 07:18, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> >Hi Rob,
> >
> >On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 07:37:25PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> >>On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 05:04:48PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >>>The driver has supported touchscreen-fw-name to specify the firmware to
> >>>load since day 0, but this was omitted from the binding, document this.
> >>>
> >>>Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
> >>>---
> >>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/touchscreen/silead_gsl1680.txt | 1 +
> >>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >>
> >>I'd really like to deprecate in favor of a standard property name. We've
> >>somewhat agreed on 'firmware-name' though there is no common binding doc
> >>yet. But given this is in use:
> >
> >This has been introduced in 4.8-rc1, so it hasn't been used in any
> >stable version yet, and we don't have any users in tree so far.
> >
> >If you want to something else, it feels like now is the time to change
> >it.
> 
> Ack, I can still change it to firmware-name if you want (Maxime has not yet
> merged any dts changes using the touchscreen-fw-name). We should probably
> also decide if the silead/ prefix we're using (so the firmware files are
> /lib/firmware/silead/foo.fw under Linux) goes into the firmware-name
> property as my current wip code is doing, or if we put the "silead/"
> part in the driver and only put the part after it in the property.
> 
> I've a feeling that just putting only the base filename (so no "silead/"
> prefix) in the property is best.

Yes, I would agree too.

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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