[RFC/PATCH] pinctrl: qcom: Add generic ssbi and spmi GPIO/MPP bindings

Stephen Boyd sboyd at codeaurora.org
Fri Nov 20 09:53:34 PST 2015


On 11/19, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 05:00:26PM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > The drivers don't really need to know which PMIC they're for, so
> > make a generic binding for them. This alleviates us from updating
> > the drivers every time a new PMIC comes out. It's still
> > recommended that we update the binding with new PMIC models and
> > always specify the specific model for the MPPs and gpios before
> > the generic compatible string in devicetree, but this at least
> > cuts down on adding more and more compatible strings to the
> > drivers until we actually need them.
> > 
> > Cc: <devicetree at vger.kernel.org>
> > Cc: "Ivan T. Ivanov" <iivanov at mm-sol.com>
> > Cc: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson at sonymobile.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org>
> > ---
> 
> Seems okay to me. I assume you are going to update all the dts files?

Yep, I'll send out patches to do that.

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