[PATCH RFC 0/3] Add generic Overlay for Grove Sunlight Sensor

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for your series!

On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 6:45 PM Andrew Davis <afd at ti.com> wrote:
> So what does this all look like? Let's take an example of a BeaglePlay
> with two Grove connectors for which we have physically attached a
> Sunlight module to the first connector, and an Air Quality sensor to
> the second. Doing ahead of time command-line DT overlay application:
>
> ./fdtoverlay \
>         -o output.dtb \
>         -i k3-am625-beagleplay.dtb
>                 k3-am625-beagleplay-grove-connector0.dtbo grove-sunlight-sensor.dtbo \
>                 k3-am625-beagleplay-grove-connector1.dtbo grove-air-quality.dtbo
>
> We start with the base board, then apply the adapter overlay for the
> specific connector we are going to attach the add-on. The next add-on
> overlay applied will attach to the connector most recently applied.
> This can be continued as needed, simply apply the next connector's
> adapter overlay, then the next add-on, rinse, repeat.

Oh, that's a neat trick, eliminating the need to enhance fdtoverlay
and friends with support for translating anchors while applying.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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