Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] pinctrl: dt-bindings: Add documentation for Armada 37xx pin controllers

From: Gregory CLEMENT
Date: Thu Mar 30 2017 - 12:18:17 EST


Hi Rob,

On mer., mars 29 2017, Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> +GPIO subnode:
>> +
>> +Please refer to gpio.txt in this directory for details of gpio-ranges property
>> +and the common GPIO bindings used by client devices.
>> +
>> +Required properties for gpio driver under the gpio subnode:
>
> Why does this need to be a sub node? You should probably have a
> compatible if it is.

It is needed to be able to have a phandle associated to the gpio. Then
the other node can refer to it.

But if we can do without it I would happy to do it.


>
>> +- interrupts: List of interrupt specifier for the controllers interrupt.
>> +- gpio-controller: Marks the device node as a gpio controller.
>> +- #gpio-cells: Should be 2. The first cell is the GPIO number and the
>> + second cell specifies GPIO flags, as defined in
>> + <dt-bindings/gpio/gpio.h>. Only the GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH and
>> + GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW flags are supported.
>> +- gpio-ranges: Range of pins managed by the GPIO controller.
>> +
>> +Xtal Clock bindings for Marvell Armada 37xx SoCs
>> +------------------------------------------------
>> +
>> +see Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/armada3700-xtal-clock.txt
>> +
>> +
>> +Example:
>> +pinctrl_sb: pinctrl-sb@18800 {
>
> pinctrl@

OK

>
>> + compatible = "marvell,armada3710-sb-pinctrl", "syscon", "simple-mfd";
>> + reg = <0x18800 0x100>, <0x18C00 0x20>;
>> + gpiosb: gpiosb {
>
> gpio@

There is no reg property so we don't use the @

Thanks,

Gregory

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