Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] mfd: arizona: Update DT binding documentation for mic detection

From: Charles Keepax
Date: Tue Oct 13 2015 - 11:47:21 EST


On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 03:18:22PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Chanwoo Choi wrote:
> > On 2015ë 10ì 13ì 22:59, Chanwoo Choi wrote:
> > > On 2015ë 10ì 13ì 22:50, Lee Jones wrote:
> > >> On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Charles Keepax wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 09:02:18AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > >>>> On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, Mark Brown wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 09:45:54AM +0100, Charles Keepax wrote:
> > >>>>>> On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 01:26:42PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > >>>>>>> On Wed, 07 Oct 2015, Mark Brown wrote:
> > >> Now I know that jack detection is an Extcon thing and Extcon Ack will
> > >> do just nicely. However, that begs the question; if they are an
> > >> Extcon thing, why aren't they in the Extcon binding document?
> > >
> > > As I knew, the arizona-extcon is one device of the MFD devices
> > > for WMxxxx series in the driver/mfd/arizona-core.c. So, If arizona-extcon
> > > driver needs the some property for dt support, some property should be
> > > included in MFD device tree node. There is no separate device tree node for
> > > arizona-extcon driver.
> >
> > If creating the separate extcon doc for extcon-arizona.c driver, it is possible
> > to make the child device tree node which is located at the below of arizona MFD
> > device tree node.
> >
> > I agree about Lee's opinion to make the separate the Extcon doc for extcon-arizona.c.
>
> This is how we normally document MFDs. Extcon doesn't even need to
> have it's own child-node (it can if you want though -- it's however
> you want to represent it), you can just put something like this in the
> MFD binding doc:
>
> Optional properties
> this : Does this
> that : Does that
>
> Also any child device specific property:
> GPIO See: ../extcon/arizona.txt
> Extcon See: ../gpio/arizona.txt
>
> Etc. Or words to that effect. See some other MFDs for examples.

More accident of history than anything else I will send a patch
to split the binding up into the seperate subsystems shortly.

Thanks,
Charles
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