Re: [RFC/PATCH] pinctrl: qcom: Add generic ssbi and spmi GPIO/MPP bindings

From: Andy Gross
Date: Tue Nov 17 2015 - 23:10:01 EST


On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 05:00:26PM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> The drivers don't really need to know which PMIC they're for, so
> make a generic binding for them. This alleviates us from updating
> the drivers every time a new PMIC comes out. It's still
> recommended that we update the binding with new PMIC models and
> always specify the specific model for the MPPs and gpios before
> the generic compatible string in devicetree, but this at least
> cuts down on adding more and more compatible strings to the
> drivers until we actually need them.
>
> Cc: <devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Ivan T. Ivanov" <iivanov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Andy Gross <agross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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