Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: pinctrl: Drop k3

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Fri Jun 02 2023 - 02:46:19 EST


On 01/06/2023 19:38, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> For convenience (less code duplication), the pin controller pin
> configuration register values were defined in the bindings header.
> These are not some IDs or other abstraction layer but raw numbers used
> in the registers.
>
> These constants do not fit the purpose of bindings. They do not
> provide any abstraction, any hardware and driver independent ID. In
> fact, the Linux pinctrl-single driver actually do not use the bindings
> header at all.
>
> Commit f2de003e1426 ("dt-bindings: pinctrl: k3: Deprecate header with
> register constants") already moved users to the local header, so, drop
> the binding header. See background discussion in [1].
>

This happened just a release ago, so I would rather expect to have it
deprecated for some time, so out of tree DTBs won't be broken. But any
platform ABI is up to platform maintainer so:

Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>

Best regards,
Krzysztof