[PATCH v3 6/6] mmc: sdhci-s3c: Add device tree support

Mark Brown broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Sun Apr 1 07:29:49 EDT 2012


On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 06:45:07PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 30 March 2012, Stephen Warren wrote:

> > > +- cd-inverted: when present, polarity on the wp gpio line is inverted
> > > +- wp-inverted: when present, polarity on the wp gpio line is inverted

> > I'm not sure about those two: Some of the GPIO bindings have flags in
> > the GPIO specifier (Tegra, ARM PL061, gpio.txt mentions the possibility
> > of polarity being in the specifier), and bit 0 of the flags is used to
> > indicate inversion. I think that either we should rely on GPIO
> > specifiers having such flags and remove these xxx-inverted properties
> > from the MMC binding, or remove that flag bit from the GPIO bindings.

> Maybe the GPIO maintainer can comment on this. My understanding is
> that not all gpio controllers support this in their bindings. If they
> do, I agree that we can remove the extra properties here.

Surely it'd be better to fix this at the GPIO controller end rather than
having a patchwork of approaches?



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