[RFC v6 1/3] gpio: dt-bindings: add wd,mbl-gpio bindings

[Rob Herring]

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 11:53 PM, Christian Lamparter
<chunkeey at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 03, 2016 09:22:10 PM Rob Herring wrote:
>> On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 02:18:37PM +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote:
>> > This patch adds the device tree bindings for the Western Digital's
>> > MyBook Live memory-mapped GPIO controllers.
>> >
>> > The gpios will be supported by gpio-mmio code of the
>> > GPIO generic library.
>> >
>> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/wd,mbl-gpio.txt
>> > @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
>> > +Bindings for the Western Digital's MyBook Live memory-mapped GPIO controllers.
>>
>> Are these really product level GPIOs rather than some SOC's GPIOs
>> (APM?)?
>>
> Ah, that's a good point.
>
> In a nutshell: The APM82181 SoC has two proper/normal GPIO controllers
> which have a dt-binding and a kernel driver ready to go.
> However Western Digital went with their own GPIO controller for
> the MyBook Live [7].

Okay, just making sure. It's a little strange to have external (to an
SOC) memory mapped GPIOs is why I asked.

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>

Rob

P.S. By v6, you should drop RFC.