Re: [PATCH v4 5/7] dt-bindings: ti-lmu: Modify dt bindings for the LM3633

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Oct 24 2018 - 05:23:33 EST


On Tue 2018-10-23 12:06:21, Dan Murphy wrote:
> The LM3633 is a single function LED driver. The single function LED
> driver needs to reside in the LED directory as a dedicated LED driver
> and not as a MFD device. The device does have common brightness and ramp
> features and those can be accomodated by a TI LMU framework.
>
> The LM3633 dt binding needs to be moved from the ti-lmu.txt and a dedicated
> LED dt binding needs to be added. The new LM3633 LED dt binding will then
> reside in the Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds directory and follow the
> current LED and general bindings guidelines.

What?

> .../devicetree/bindings/leds/leds-lm3633.txt | 102 ++++++++++++++++++
> .../devicetree/bindings/mfd/ti-lmu.txt | 48 ---------
> 2 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/leds-lm3633.txt

> index 920f910be4e9..573e88578d3d 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/ti-lmu.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/ti-lmu.txt
> @@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ TI LMU driver supports lighting devices below.
> LM3532 Backlight
> LM3631 Backlight and regulator
> LM3632 Backlight and regulator
> - LM3633 Backlight, LED and fault monitor
> LM3695 Backlight

Are you seriously proposing to take one binding and split it into 6
copy&pasted ones?

That's not the way we do development. NAK.

We don't want to have copy & pasted code. We also don't want to have
copy & pasted bindings. Nor changelogs, for that matter.

Thank you,
Pavel
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