Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] Documentation: add the Marvell Berlin pinctrl documentation

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Fri May 16 2014 - 10:00:57 EST


On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Antoine TÃnart
<antoine.tenart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Add the documentation related to the Berlin pin-controller driver and
> explain how to configure this group based controller.
>
> Signed-off-by: Antoine TÃnart <antoine.tenart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@xxxxxxxxx>
(...)

When I see this:

> +Required subnode-properties:
> +- marvell,groups: a list of strings describing the group names.
> +- marvell,function: a string describing the function used to mux the groups.
> +
> +Example:
> +
> +sm_pinctrl: pin-controller@0 {
> + compatible = "marvell,berlin2q-sysmgr-pinctrl";
> + reg = <0xfc0000 0x44>;
> +
> + uart0_pmux: uart0-pmux {
> + marvell,groups = "GSM12", "GSM13";
> + marvell,function = "uart0";
> + };
> +}

I feel like ... can't we just standardize that and make it a common
pinctrl binding, and name the properties "groups" and "function"
for a family of pin controllers just mapping N groups to 1 function?

I will merge the patches as are, but maybe we can make it generic
on top of this before the merge window?

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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