[RFC PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: pinctrl: sunxi: document new generic binding

[Maxime Ripard]

Hi Linus,

On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 11:19:52AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 2:25 AM, Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com> wrote:
> 
> > So far all the Allwinner pinctrl drivers provided a table in the
> > kernel to describe all the pins and the link between the pinctrl functions
> > names (strings) and their respective mux values (register values).
> >
> > Extend the binding to put those mappings in the DT, so that any SoC can
> > describe its pinctrl and GPIO data fully there instead of relying on
> > tables.
> > This uses a generic compatible name, to be prepended with an SoC
> > specific name in the node.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
> (...)
> 
> I definately want feedback from Maxime before I do anything with
> this patch series.

So I've been opposed to it as well, for the reasons Rob, Thierry and
you pointed out already in that thread

I just wasn't sure what your opinion on it was, so I didn't answer
just so that I could see if I was the only one pushing back.

So I guess we all agree here.

Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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