Re: [PATCH 2/6] dt-bindings: mtd: Rewrite gpio-control-nand in schema

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Wed Nov 08 2023 - 16:45:33 EST


On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 8:11 PM Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2023 at 03:33:50PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:

> > This creates a schema for GPIO controlled NAND. The txt
> > schema was old and wrong.
> >
> > Mark the old way of passing GPIOs in a long array as
> > deprecated and encourage per-pin GPIO assignments with
> > the named nnn-gpios phandles.
>
> We have 1 user upstream with only a single commit adding it in 2017.
> This doesn't seem like something that's going to gain new users either.
> Is it really worth modernizing this binding?

The whole ordeal was actually prompted by the emergence of a
new user who wants to add a device tree for a new device.
So I don't want to add new users for the old bindings.

Yours,
Linus Walleij