[PATCH 15/17] pinctrl: uniphier: allow to have pinctrl node under syscon node

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Tue May 31 03:55:24 PDT 2016


On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> wrote:

> Currently, the UniPhier pinctrl driver itself is a syscon, but it
> turned out much more reasonable to make it a child node of a syscon
> because our syscon node consists of a bunch of system configuration
> registers, not only pinctrl, but also phy, and misc registers.
> It is difficult to split the node.
>
> To allow to migrate to the new DT structure, this commit adds new
> compatible strings to not disturb the existing DT.  After a while,
> the old binding will be removed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>

Patch applied, I guess if there is too much fuzz about the DT
bindings getting incompatible I would have to revert it.

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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