Re: [PATCH v5 10/10] arm: dts: genmai: Add ethernet pin group

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Thu May 11 2017 - 09:49:15 EST


On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Chris Brandt <Chris.Brandt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday, May 05, 2017, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> > This is the part of the whole "DT is for hardware description only" that
>> doesn't really make sense to me.
>>
>> OK yeah we do hardware description AND configuration.
>>
>> And we never do interpreted languages.
>>
>> And then there is a bunch of grayzone things. For example we have a
>> linux,input binding for connecting keypresses to certain Linux input codes.
>> That is really grayzone, but very useful.
>
> Ah....
>
> compatible = "linux,grayzone";
>
> Thanks for the reply. I'll stop ranting now.
> Of course, I'll still probably screw it up again on a future patch somehow...

For this driver I remarked in some other thread that we may
end up with some

"renesas,bidirectional"

or so. But yeah, it's kinda grayzone too.

Yours,
Linus Walleij