[PATCH v3 12/18] dt-bindings: Add PLX Technology OXNAS pinctrl and gpio bindings
Linus Walleij
linus.walleij at linaro.org
Thu Mar 31 01:58:20 PDT 2016
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 05:50:09PM +0100, Neil Armstrong wrote:
>> Add pinctrl and gpio DT bindings for PLX Technology OXNAS SoC Family.
>> This version supports the ARM926EJ-S based OX810SE SoC with 34 IO pins.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong at baylibre.com>
>> + - plxtech,gpio-bank: Specifies which bank a controller owns.
>
> How is this used?
That is used to give a unique ID number to the bank.
Hardware often need this to cross-reference pin controllers
to GPIO banks.
I should add it as "gpio-bank" to the generic bindings
instead, several platforms already use this and there is
no point in having a vendor prefix in front of it.
Yours,
Linus Walleij
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