[PATCH v6 1/8] dt-bindings: pinctrl: mediatek,mt6779-pinctrl: Pull pinctrl node changes from MT6795 document
Yassine Oudjana
yassine.oudjana at gmail.com
Tue Oct 29 23:33:07 PDT 2024
On Mon, Oct 14 2024 at 14:02:37 -05:00:00, Rob Herring
<robh at kernel.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 3:27 AM AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
> <angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com> wrote:
>>
>> Il 11/10/24 18:56, Rob Herring ha scritto:
>> > On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 03:03:46PM +0300, Yassine Oudjana wrote:
>> >> From: Yassine Oudjana <y.oudjana at protonmail.com>
>> >>
>> >> mediatek,pinctrl-mt6795.yaml has different node name patterns
>> which match
>> >> bindings of other MediaTek pin controllers, ref for
>> pinmux-node.yaml which
>> >> has a description of the pinmux property, as well as some
>> additional
>> >> descriptions for some pin configuration properties. Pull those
>> changes
>> >> into mediatek,mt6779-pinctrl.yaml and adjust the example DTS to
>> match in
>> >> preparation to combine the MT6795 document into it.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Yassine Oudjana <y.oudjana at protonmail.com>
>> >> ---
>> >> .../pinctrl/mediatek,mt6779-pinctrl.yaml | 38
>> ++++++++++++++-----
>> >> 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>> >>
>> >> diff --git
>> a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/mediatek,mt6779-pinctrl.yaml
>> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/mediatek,mt6779-pinctrl.yaml
>> >> index 3bbc00df5548d..352a88d7b135e 100644
>> >> ---
>> a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/mediatek,mt6779-pinctrl.yaml
>> >> +++
>> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/mediatek,mt6779-pinctrl.yaml
>> >> @@ -111,12 +111,12 @@ allOf:
>> >> - "#interrupt-cells"
>> >>
>> >> patternProperties:
>> >> - '-[0-9]*$':
>> >> + '-pins$':
>> >
>> > Worst case, this could be an ABI break. Best case, it's churn for
>> > mt6779. Is it worth unifying?
>> >
>> All those MediaTek pinctrl bindings are mostly the same, where only
>> the pin
>> definitions in the binding header does actually change.
>>
>> I think that it's worth unifying them, not only to get rid of the
>> duplication
>> but mostly for consistency between all of those subnode names which
>> are wildly
>> differing for no real reason... and consistency is a long time
>> issue with
>> MediaTek bindings/dts in general (which is way way way better now,
>> but still)...
>>
>> Besides - just for context and nothing else: the driver doesn't
>> care about
>> the names of the subnodes, anyway... so while this is technically
>> an ABI break
>> it's not really creating any functionality issue, and then,
>> actually, Yassine
>> is also modifying the devicetrees to comply with his consistency
>> changes, so,
>> in my own perspective, it's still acceptable.
>
> Wait, I thought there were no users?
Right, When I said there were no users I was thinking of MT6779
strictly, but MT6797 is included in the bindings so it counts too.
mt6797.dtsi is currently the only place where these bindings are used.
>
> We generally only consider node names ABI when/if something or someone
> cares. Most of the time it doesn't matter. For the pinctrl nodes, it's
> really just a question of churn renaming a lot of nodes.
>
> Ultimately, it's up to you. I only care that the implications of the
> changes are clear in the commit msg.
I'll mention MT6797 in the commit message.
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