Re: [PATCH v4 2/7] dt-bindings: ti-lmu: Modify dt bindings for the LM3697

From: Dan Murphy
Date: Thu Oct 25 2018 - 13:56:50 EST



Rob

Thanks

On 10/24/2018 09:49 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 12:06:18PM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote:
>> The LM3697 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 LM3697 dt binding needs to be moved from the ti-lmu.txt and a dedicated
>> LED dt binding needs to be added. The new LM3697 LED dt binding will then
>> reside in the Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds directory and follow the
>> current LED and general bindings guidelines.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dan Murphy <dmurphy@xxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>> v4 - Squashed removal and addition of the dt bindings into a single patch - https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/998703/
>
> Still not really the sequence I'd like to see and what I think would
> help the discussion move along.
>
> Patch 1: move all the devices out of ti-lmu.txt into the grouping which
> makes sense. IOW, no functional changes. Probably only strict
> sub/supersets of each other should be shared.
>
> Patch 2-N: Make binding changes. Then we discuss things like ramp time
> properties separately from binding structure.
>

OK I will re-work the patchset.

Dan

>>
>> .../devicetree/bindings/leds/leds-lm3697.txt | 98 +++++++++++++++++++
>> .../devicetree/bindings/mfd/ti-lmu.txt | 26 +----
>> 2 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/leds-lm3697.txt


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Dan Murphy